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Quote of the day, 28 June: St. John of the Cross

Let Christ crucified be enough for you, and with him suffer and take your rest, and hence annihilate yourself in all inward and outward things

Endeavor always that things be not for you, nor you for them, but forgetful of all, abide in recollection with your Bridegroom.

Have great love for trials and think of them as but a small way of pleasing your Bridegroom, who did not hesitate to die for you.

Bear fortitude in your heart against all things that move you to that which is not God, and be a friend of the Passion of Christ.

Be interiorly detached from all things and do not seek pleasure in any temporal thing, and your soul will concentrate on goods you do not know

The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.

Saint John of the Cross

Sayings of Light and Love, nos. 92–97

John of the Cross, St 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, rev. edn, Kavanaugh, K & Rodriguez, O (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: This crucifix hangs on the landing outside St Dominic’s cell in Santa Sabina, the Dominican convent in Rome. Image credit: Father Lawrence Lew, OP / Flickr (Some rights reserved).

Quote of the day, 8 May: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

“Virgo fidelis”: that is, Faithful Virgin, “who kept all these things in her heart.” [Lk. 2:19] She remained so little, so recollected in God’s presence, in the seclusion of the temple, that she drew down upon herself the delight of the Holy Trinity: “Because He has looked upon the lowliness of His servant, henceforth all generations shall call me blessed!” [Lk. 1:48]

The Father, bending down to this beautiful creature, who was so unaware of her own beauty, willed that she be the Mother in time of Him whose Father He is in eternity.

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity

Heaven in Faith, 39

Elizabeth of the Trinity, S 2014, I Have Found God, The Complete Works of Elizabeth of the Trinity Volume 1: Major spiritual writings, translated from the French by Kane, A, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (detail), Pierre Mignard (French, 1612–1695), oil on canvas, 1635. Image credit: Private collection / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

Quote of the day, 1 May: Père Jacques

Mary spent delightful months of divine friendship while she was carrying Jesus. But we too, my brothers, carry God within us; we too are certain to possess within us the living God, so long as our souls remain in a state of grace.

Oh! my brothers, if this mystery could appear before your eyes. If your gaze were one day to grasp the presence of God in the most intimate depth of your hearts, how your life would be changed—what a transformation in your whole being!

Let us, then, resolve to develop within ourselves the habit of thinking of the presence of God. We are God-bearers; the good God lives in us.

Oh! from time to time, in the course of our days, may our souls recollect themselves for a moment—just a few seconds perhaps. Let us close our eyes. Let us descend within ourselves. And there, encountering God—the good God—let us look upon Him with a gentle smile. Then, in a kind of holy “madness,” let us lose ourselves in Him in an affectionate embrace.

Oh yes, may each hour of our life bring us a greater intimacy with the divine Guest who rests in our souls. This will be our joy, our consolation; Mary will help us in this and will be our example.

Servant of God Père Jacques de Jésus

Sermon, Marian devotions, 1927

 Carmes de Paris. 2014 Carmelite Advent Online Retreat: “Devenir lumière dans la nuit.” Accessed April 29, 2026. https://retraites.carmes-paris.org/meditation-chretienne-en-ligne/avent-2014-avec-le-pere-jacques-de-jesus-devenir-lumiere-dans-la-nuit/

Featured image: Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (Italian, 1609–1685), The Virgin in Prayer (Madonna in preghiera), oil on canvas, c. 1640–1650. This work is held in the collections of the National Gallery, London. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

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Quote of the day, 21 January: Mother Agnès of Jesus

Recently a tiny shellfish gave me a lesson in interior recollection. I had difficulty in opening it because it resisted strongly, and I said to myself: “It is quite a vigorous little creature: no one would think it is so far from the sea.”

It taught me a great lesson. I must be sufficiently filled with the water of recollection to resist as strongly as he did the pressure of work and various happenings of the day, anything that could make me lose the drop of water which makes possible my union with God.

Mother Agnès of Jesus, o.c.d. (Pauline Martin)

Little Counsels of Mother Agnes of Jesus, OCD Saint Therese’s Sister, Pauline (excerpt), Compiled by the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Ada (Parnell) Michigan

Featured image: Comboni Missionary Father David Bohnsack, mccj captures the humble, contemplative gaze of a child in Abéché, Chad. Image credit: David Bohnsack, mccj (By permission).

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~Researching Memories~ / Second Another - #AnotherCode TwoMemories / #Recollection
( #SatoshiOkubo )

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~Researching Memories~ / Second Another - #AnotherCode TwoMemories / #Recollection
( #SatoshiOkubo )

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"Religion, right, ethics, and everything spiritual in human beings, is merely aroused. We are implicitly spirit, for the truth lies within us and the spiritual content within us must be brought into consciousness."

Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Lectures of 1827, p. 161

#Hegel #Recollection #Anamnesis #Philosophy #Religion #Ethics #Spirit #Consciousness #Mysticism #GermanIdealism

"Religion, right, ethics, and everything spiritual in human beings, is merely aroused. We are implicitly spirit, for the truth lies within us and the spiritual content within us must be brought into consciousness."

Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Lectures of 1827, p. 161

#Hegel #Recollection #Anamnesis #Philosophy #Religion #Ethics #Spirit #Consciousness #Mysticism #GermanIdealism

"Religion, right, ethics, and everything spiritual in human beings, is merely aroused. We are implicitly spirit, for the truth lies within us and the spiritual content within us must be brought into consciousness."

Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Lectures of 1827, p. 161

#Hegel #Recollection #Anamnesis #Philosophy #Religion #Ethics #Spirit #Consciousness #Mysticism #GermanIdealism

"Religion, right, ethics, and everything spiritual in human beings, is merely aroused. We are implicitly spirit, for the truth lies within us and the spiritual content within us must be brought into consciousness."

Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: The Lectures of 1827, p. 161

#Hegel #Recollection #Anamnesis #Philosophy #Religion #Ethics #Spirit #Consciousness #Mysticism #GermanIdealism

A #recollection - a story, if you will - that doesn't have a particular purpose. I'm not trying to influence you to think something in particular, just relating something I thought about recently.

Many years ago, towards the end of my senior year in high school, the #school day had just ended and I was getting a ride home from a friend. I was in the passenger seat of his car, on a beautiful late-spring day, and had just fastened my seat belt as we prepared to leave the parking lot.

Three guys were walking by in front of the car. One, "J", was a guy I'd been #friends with in elementary school, but fell out of contact with in high school. I don't think we'd talked or interacted in years. He had no reason or motive for what followed, except perhaps #peer pressure from one of the other two guys. *That* guy was a former friend who disliked me because I'd #dated his #sister for a while. He'd spent much of the last year slagging me off to anyone who would listen, and I have no doubt he influenced Former Friend J.

As they walked by the front of the car, J stared at me and #flipped me off. I laughed and did the same back to him. They stopped, he came around to my side of the car, and sucker-punched me through the window, breaking my #nose. My friend drove me to the hospital a few blocks away, where the doc straightened it - I'd broken it before, as a kid, so this actually made it better.

Today, it would probably result in #police etc. Then, it was "just kids". #Weird.

A #recollection - a story, if you will - that doesn't have a particular purpose. I'm not trying to influence you to think something in particular, just relating something I thought about recently.

Many years ago, towards the end of my senior year in high school, the #school day had just ended and I was getting a ride home from a friend. I was in the passenger seat of his car, on a beautiful late-spring day, and had just fastened my seat belt as we prepared to leave the parking lot.

Three guys were walking by in front of the car. One, "J", was a guy I'd been #friends with in elementary school, but fell out of contact with in high school. I don't think we'd talked or interacted in years. He had no reason or motive for what followed, except perhaps #peer pressure from one of the other two guys. *That* guy was a former friend who disliked me because I'd #dated his #sister for a while. He'd spent much of the last year slagging me off to anyone who would listen, and I have no doubt he influenced Former Friend J.

As they walked by the front of the car, J stared at me and #flipped me off. I laughed and did the same back to him. They stopped, he came around to my side of the car, and sucker-punched me through the window, breaking my #nose. My friend drove me to the hospital a few blocks away, where the doc straightened it - I'd broken it before, as a kid, so this actually made it better.

Today, it would probably result in #police etc. Then, it was "just kids". #Weird.

A #recollection - a story, if you will - that doesn't have a particular purpose. I'm not trying to influence you to think something in particular, just relating something I thought about recently.

Many years ago, towards the end of my senior year in high school, the #school day had just ended and I was getting a ride home from a friend. I was in the passenger seat of his car, on a beautiful late-spring day, and had just fastened my seat belt as we prepared to leave the parking lot.

Three guys were walking by in front of the car. One, "J", was a guy I'd been #friends with in elementary school, but fell out of contact with in high school. I don't think we'd talked or interacted in years. He had no reason or motive for what followed, except perhaps #peer pressure from one of the other two guys. *That* guy was a former friend who disliked me because I'd #dated his #sister for a while. He'd spent much of the last year slagging me off to anyone who would listen, and I have no doubt he influenced Former Friend J.

As they walked by the front of the car, J stared at me and #flipped me off. I laughed and did the same back to him. They stopped, he came around to my side of the car, and sucker-punched me through the window, breaking my #nose. My friend drove me to the hospital a few blocks away, where the doc straightened it - I'd broken it before, as a kid, so this actually made it better.

Today, it would probably result in #police etc. Then, it was "just kids". #Weird.

A #recollection - a story, if you will - that doesn't have a particular purpose. I'm not trying to influence you to think something in particular, just relating something I thought about recently.

Many years ago, towards the end of my senior year in high school, the #school day had just ended and I was getting a ride home from a friend. I was in the passenger seat of his car, on a beautiful late-spring day, and had just fastened my seat belt as we prepared to leave the parking lot.

Three guys were walking by in front of the car. One, "J", was a guy I'd been #friends with in elementary school, but fell out of contact with in high school. I don't think we'd talked or interacted in years. He had no reason or motive for what followed, except perhaps #peer pressure from one of the other two guys. *That* guy was a former friend who disliked me because I'd #dated his #sister for a while. He'd spent much of the last year slagging me off to anyone who would listen, and I have no doubt he influenced Former Friend J.

As they walked by the front of the car, J stared at me and #flipped me off. I laughed and did the same back to him. They stopped, he came around to my side of the car, and sucker-punched me through the window, breaking my #nose. My friend drove me to the hospital a few blocks away, where the doc straightened it - I'd broken it before, as a kid, so this actually made it better.

Today, it would probably result in #police etc. Then, it was "just kids". #Weird.

A #recollection - a story, if you will - that doesn't have a particular purpose. I'm not trying to influence you to think something in particular, just relating something I thought about recently.

Many years ago, towards the end of my senior year in high school, the #school day had just ended and I was getting a ride home from a friend. I was in the passenger seat of his car, on a beautiful late-spring day, and had just fastened my seat belt as we prepared to leave the parking lot.

Three guys were walking by in front of the car. One, "J", was a guy I'd been #friends with in elementary school, but fell out of contact with in high school. I don't think we'd talked or interacted in years. He had no reason or motive for what followed, except perhaps #peer pressure from one of the other two guys. *That* guy was a former friend who disliked me because I'd #dated his #sister for a while. He'd spent much of the last year slagging me off to anyone who would listen, and I have no doubt he influenced Former Friend J.

As they walked by the front of the car, J stared at me and #flipped me off. I laughed and did the same back to him. They stopped, he came around to my side of the car, and sucker-punched me through the window, breaking my #nose. My friend drove me to the hospital a few blocks away, where the doc straightened it - I'd broken it before, as a kid, so this actually made it better.

Today, it would probably result in #police etc. Then, it was "just kids". #Weird.

"What's the crapword?"

"Shit! I d..."

"Yes! Do come in!"

#crap #crapword #recollection

"What's the crapword?"

"Shit! I d..."

"Yes! Do come in!"

#crap #crapword #recollection

"What's the crapword?"

"Shit! I d..."

"Yes! Do come in!"

#crap #crapword #recollection

"What's the crapword?"

"Shit! I d..."

"Yes! Do come in!"

#crap #crapword #recollection

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1858-10), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

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A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1858-10), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #experience #forgetfulness #memory #recollection #selectivememory

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1858-10), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #experience #forgetfulness #memory #recollection #selectivememory

A quotation from J. M. Barrie

   If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, “Why, of course, I did, child,” and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, “What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did.” Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, “Why, of course, I did, child,” but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother’s name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
   Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
The Little White Bird, ch. 14 “Peter Pan,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 32 (1902-10)

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A quotation from J. M. Barrie

   If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, “Why, of course, I did, child,” and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, “What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did.” Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, “Why, of course, I did, child,” but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother’s name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
   Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
The Little White Bird, ch. 14 “Peter Pan,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 32 (1902-10)

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #peterpan #jmbarrie #age #childhood #generations #goat #memory #recollection

A quotation from J. M. Barrie

   If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, “Why, of course, I did, child,” and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, “What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did.” Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, “Why, of course, I did, child,” but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother’s name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
   Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.

J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist [James Matthew Barrie]
The Little White Bird, ch. 14 “Peter Pan,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 32 (1902-10)

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Quote of the day, 11 March: St. Teresa of Avila

Now, then, let us speak again to those souls I mentioned that cannot recollect or tie their minds down in mental prayer or engage in reflection. Let’s not mention here by name these two things, since you are not meant to follow such a path. As a matter of fact there are many persons seemingly terrified by the mere term “mental prayer” or “contemplation,” and perhaps one of these might come to this house, for as I have also said not everyone walks by the same path.

Well what I now want to counsel you about (I can even say teach you, because as a Mother, having the office of prioress, I’m allowed to teach) is how you must pray vocally, for it’s only right that you should understand what you’re saying.

And because it can happen that those who are unable to think about God may also find long prayers tiring, I don’t want to concern myself with these. But I will speak of those prayers we are obliged as Christians to recite (such as, the Our Father and the Hail Mary) so that people won’t be able to say of us that we speak and don’t understand what we’re speaking about—unless we think it is enough for us to follow the practice in which merely pronouncing the words is sufficient. I’m not concerned with whether this is sufficient or not; learned men will explain [the matter to those persons to whom God gives light to ask the question. And I’m not meddling with what doesn’t belong to our state.]

What I would like us to do, daughters, is refuse to be satisfied with merely pronouncing the words. For when I say, “I believe,” it seems to me right that I should know and understand what I believe.

And when I say, “Our Father,” it will be an act of love to understand who this Father of ours is and who the Master is who taught us this prayer.

What we ourselves can do is to strive to be alone; and please God it will suffice, as I say, that we understand to whom we are speaking and the answer the Lord makes to our petitions. Do you think He is silent? Even though we do not hear Him, He speaks well to the heart when we beseech Him from the heart.

And it is good for us to consider that He taught this prayer to each of us and that He is showing it to us; the teacher is never so far from his pupil that he has to shout, but he is very close. I want you to understand that it is good for you, if you are to recite the Our Father well, to remain at the side of the Master who taught this prayer to you.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The Way of Perfection, chap. 24, nos. 1–2, 5

Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Jude Beck / Unsplash (Stock photo)

#contemplation #LordSPrayer #mentalPrayer #OurFather #recollection #solitude #StTeresaOfAvila #understanding #vocalPrayer

Estoy viendo a @SamMeister hablar de #PreservacionDigital, me encanta que enliste a las #instituciones como uno de los grandes depredadores de nuestras #memoriasdigitales. Me recuerda a @jonippolito y si texto #DeathByInstitution en su libro #ReCollection

Estoy viendo a @SamMeister hablar de #PreservacionDigital, me encanta que enliste a las #instituciones como uno de los grandes depredadores de nuestras #memoriasdigitales. Me recuerda a @jonippolito y si texto #DeathByInstitution en su libro #ReCollection

Estoy viendo a @SamMeister hablar de #PreservacionDigital, me encanta que enliste a las #instituciones como uno de los grandes depredadores de nuestras #memoriasdigitales. Me recuerda a @jonippolito y si texto #DeathByInstitution en su libro #ReCollection

Estoy viendo a @SamMeister hablar de #PreservacionDigital, me encanta que enliste a las #instituciones como uno de los grandes depredadores de nuestras #memoriasdigitales. Me recuerda a @jonippolito y si texto #DeathByInstitution en su libro #ReCollection

Estoy viendo a @SamMeister hablar de #PreservacionDigital, me encanta que enliste a las #instituciones como uno de los grandes depredadores de nuestras #memoriasdigitales. Me recuerda a @jonippolito y si texto #DeathByInstitution en su libro #ReCollection

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inventory.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1872-01), “The Poet at the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

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#quote #quotes #quotation #chatter #recollection #selfdiscovery #selfexamination #talking #thoughts

Quote of the day, 14 January: Brother Lawrence

Reverend and Dear Mother,

I received from Miss N. the rosaries that you gave her. I am surprised you haven’t let me know what you think of the book I sent you. You must have received it. Put it diligently into practice in your later days. Better late than never.

I cannot understand how religious people can remain content without the practice of the presence of God. As for me, I keep myself recollected in him in the depth and center of my soul as much as possible, and when I am thus with him I fear nothing, though the least deviation is hell for me.

This exercise does not hurt the body. It is nonetheless appropriate to deprive it occasionally, and even with some frequency, of some innocent, permissible, little consolations. For God will not permit a soul desirous of being entirely his to find consolation other than with him, and that is more than reasonable!

I do not say we must put ourselves to a great deal of trouble to do this; no, we must serve God in holy freedom. We must work faithfully, without turmoil or anxiety, gently and peacefully bringing our minds back to God as often as we find ourselves distracted.

We must, however, place all our trust in God and let go of all our cares, including a multitude of private devotions, very good in themselves but often carried out for the wrong reason, for these devotions are nothing more than the means to arrive at the end. If, then, we are with the one who is our end by this practice of the presence of God, it is certainly useless to return to the means. We can continue our loving exchange with him, remaining in his holy presence sometimes by an act of adoration, praise, or desire, other times by acts of oblation, thanksgiving, or anything else that our minds can devise.

Do not be discouraged by the repugnance you feel on the side of nature. You must do it violence. In the beginning you may often think you are wasting your time; nonetheless, you must continually resolve to persevere until death in spite of all the difficulties. I commend myself to the prayers of your holy community and to yours in particular and I am in Our Lord,

Yours,

From Paris, November 3, 1685

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, O.C.D.

Letter 4, to the same nun as Letter 3
Saturday, 3 November 1685

Lawrence of the Resurrection, B; De Meester, C 1994, Writings and Conversations on the Practice of the Presence of God,  translated from the French by Salvatore Sciurba, OCD, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Photographer Mark Notari captures this image of pots and pans on a stove in a commercial kitchen within a market in Oaxaca, Mexico. Image credit: notarim / Flickr (Some rights reserved)

#BrotherLawrenceOfTheResurrection #freedom #innerPeace #prayer #presenceOfGod #recollection #Rosary #selfDenial #trust

A quotation from Barrie, James:

«
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barrie-james/5612/

#quote #quotes #quotation #drawer #memory #mess #recollection #remembrance

A quotation from Barrie, James:

«
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barrie-james/5612/

#quote #quotes #quotation #drawer #memory #mess #recollection #remembrance

A quotation from Barrie, James:

«
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barrie-james/5612/

#quote #quotes #quotation #drawer #memory #mess #recollection #remembrance

The reason some spiritual persons never entirely enter into the true joys of the spirit is that they never manage to renounce their desire for joy in these exterior and visible things. These persons should keep in mind that although the place dedicated and suited to prayer is the visible oratory or church and the motivating good is the image, these means should not be so used that the satisfaction and delight of the soul stems entirely from them, thereby causing one to forget to pray in the living temple, which is interior recollection of soul.

To remind us of this, the Apostle said: Behold, your bodies are living temples of the Holy Spirit, who dwells within you [1 Cor. 3:16]. This thought brings to mind the affirmation of Christ that we quoted: The true adorers should adore in spirit and truth [Jn. 4:24]. God pays little attention to your oratories and places arranged for prayer if through your desire and the delight you take in them you become attached and, in consequence, have less interior nakedness, that is, spiritual poverty, in the renunciation of things that can be possessed.

To purge the will of its desire and vain joy in these objects and direct it to God, you should strive in your prayer for a pure conscience, a will that is wholly with God, and a mind truly set on him.

And, as I mentioned, [Ascent, III, 39:2] you ought to choose the most withdrawn and solitary place possible, convert all your joy of will into glorifying and invoking God. And you should pay no attention to these other little exterior satisfactions; you should rather seek to deny them. Should a soul become bound to the delight of sensory devotion, it will never succeed in passing on to the strength of spiritual delight, which is discovered through interior recollection in spiritual nakedness.

Saint John of the Cross

The Ascent of Mount Carmel, Book III, Chapter 40

John of the Cross, St. 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Revised Edition, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K and Rodriguez, O with revisions and introductions by Kavanaugh, K, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

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