List of points

If the outlook in your interior life, in your soul, is darkened, allow yourself to be led along by the hand, as a blind man would do.

—In time the Lord will reward this humble surrendering of your own judgement by giving you clarity of mind.

Spiritual direction. Don’t object to someone poking at your soul with supernatural sense and holy shamelessness to check how true it is that you are able — and willing — to give glory to God.

Submit your plan of mortifications to your spiritual Director, for him to ‘moderate’ them.

—But to ‘moderate’ will not always mean to diminish. It can also mean increasing them, if he thinks fit. — Either way, accept his advice!

How difficult it is to live humility! As the popular wisdom of Christianity says, “Pride dies twenty-four hours after its owner.”

So when you think you’re right, against what you are being told by someone who has been given a special grace from God to guide your soul, be sure that you are completely wrong.

You became a bit frightened when you saw so much light, so bright that you thought it would be difficult to look, or even to see.

—Disregard your obvious weaknesses, and open the eyes of your soul to faith, to hope and to love. Carry on, allowing yourself to be guided by God through whoever directs your soul.