When I apply myself to prayer, I feel all my spirit and all
my soul lift itself up without any care or effort of mine,
and it continues as it were suspended and firmly fixed in God,
as in its center and place of rest.
(p. 34)
I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence,
wherein I keep myself by a simple attention,
and a general fond regard to God,
which I may call an actual presence of God;
or, to speak better,
an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God,
which often causes me joys and raptures inwardly,
and sometimes also outwardly,
so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them
and prevent their appearance to others.
(p. 32 - 33)
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