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“To those in Jerusalem, Jesus remained silent. When the tempest of your indignation flares up, say again with a peaceful sweetness: ‘Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.’ Bury yourself in the deep abyss of the love, the glory, the joy of the divine Persons; refuse yourself every gaze toward yourself. Nothing troubles the radiant and impassible felicity of the Blessed Trinity. The opinion of men has neither value, nor interest: you are what God sees. Is this not an unspeakable joy that He will be the only one to enjoy what is the purest and the most beautiful in yourself?
O my brother, may you understand and taste the sweetness to be known by God alone! Be happy to radiate Christ, but do not trouble yourself because this radiating light is still too faint. Are you not tired enough of conversing with men that you dialogue again with them, now in your soul (or imagination), to bring them to your reasoning? Be alone with God alone! He knows all. He can do all. He loves you.”
~An Anonymous Carthusian Monk
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