Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things; all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection; and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.