People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.
Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.
The now wherein God made the world is as near this time as the now I am speaking in this moment, and the last day is as near this now as was yesterday.
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.