Then compare this with the method by which health-giving suggestions are made to the bodily life.

"In the deeps of the soul His word is spoken." Is not this an exact description of the inward work of the self-realizing idea of holiness, received in the prayer of quiet into the unconscious mind, and there experienced as a transforming power?
I think that we may go even further than this, and say that grace, is, in effect, the direct suggestion of the spiritual affecting our soul's life.

As we are commonly docile to the countless hetero-suggestions, some of them helpful, some weakening, some actually perverting, which our environment is always making to us; so we can and should be so spiritually suggestible that we can receive those given to us by all-penetrating Divine life.

What is generally called sin, especially in the forms of self-sufficiency, lack of charity and the indulgence of the senses, renders us recalcitrant to these living suggestions of the Spirit.

The opposing qualities, humility, love and purity, make us as we say accessible to grace.
"Son," says the inward voice to Thomas a Kempis, "My grace is precious, and suffereth not itself to be mingled with strange things nor earthly consolations.