I give you one counsel; that you don't think that through your own strength or efforts you can arrive, for reaching this stage is beyond our power; if you try to reach it, the devotion you have will grow cold. But with simplicity and humility, which will achieve everything, say: fiat vountas tua...
When we are more determined we are less confident of ourselves, for confidence must be placed in god. When we understand this... there will be no need to go about so tense and constrained... [We will] go about with a holy freedom.
Through the blood He shed for us I ask those who have not begun to enter within themselves to do so; and those who have begun, not to let the war make them turn back... Let them trust in the mercy of God and not at all in themselves, and they will see how his Majesty brings them from the dwelling places of one stage to those of another... and they shall enjoy many more blessings than one desire - blessings even in this life, I mean.
Teresa of Jesus
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