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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.

John of the Cross

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
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Agreement Remember Silence
To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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Deep God Love Transformation
God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Darkness God Life Man Night
Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.
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Courage Goodness Man Path Perseverance Spirit
Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
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Delight Desire Learning Possession Spiritual True Yourself
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.
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Excellence Goodness Love Remember Value
However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
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God Goodness Need Ourselves Seek Soft Solitude Surprise Talk Wings
Who teaches the soul if not God?
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God Soul Spiritual Teaching
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
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Meditation Open Prayer Reading Seek Yourself
Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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Advice Faith Ourselves
Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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Desire Gratitude Myself
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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Love Yourself
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
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God Human Live World Yourself
In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts; And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.
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Fear Flower Love Mountain Myself Search Wild
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding.
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Purity Carry Training Understand
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
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Faith God Soul

Let my soul live as if separated from my body.

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