April 27
Companions of the Way (Evening)I will give thee the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places.
SUCH a soul is free from the outward Man, and easily enters into the inner Solitude, where she sees none but God, and herself in Him, loving Him with Quiet, with Peace, and with true Love. There in that secret Centre God is tenderly speaking to her, teaching her a new Kingdom, true Peace and Joy.
This spiritual, abstracted and retired Soul hath her Peace no more broken, though outwardly she may meet with Combats; because, through the infinite distance, tempests do never reach to that serenest Heaven within, where abideth pure and perfect Love; and though sometimes she finds herself forsaken, opposed and desolate, this is but the fury of a storm, which can only threaten and rage without.
MIGUEL DE MOLINOS
TOO MUCH RELIGION