List of points

In the interior life, as in human love, we have to persevere.

Yes, you have to meditate often on the same themes, keeping on until you re-discover an old discovery.

—“And how could I not have seen this so clearly before?” you’ll ask in surprise. Simply because sometimes we’re like stones, that let the water flow over them, without absorbing a drop.

—That’s why we have to go over the same things again and again — because they aren’t the same things — if we want to soak up God’s blessings.