To live in the spirit is to live for a God in Whom we believe,
but Whom we cannot see.
To desire this is therefore to renounce the desire of all that can be seen.
To possess Him Who cannot be understood is to renounce all that can be
understood.
To rest in Him Who is beyond all created rest,
we renounce the desire to rest in created things.
(p. 55)
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