And in partaking of worldly things and going into the company around me, my interior self has no pleasure, and I feel afterwards that the labor and time have been misspent.

How to live a life which shall be conformable to the life wlthin and not separate from the persons and circumstances around me, I cannot conceive.

I am now like one who tastes a little of this and then a little of that dish, while his time is wasted and his mind distracted from that pure enjoyment which is a foretaste of the bliss of the angels.

I feel my primitive instincts and unvitiated tastes daily becoming more sensible to inspirations from above, from the invisible.

The ideal world, the soul world, the kingdom of heaven within, I feel as if I were more a friend and citizen of O Lord! my heart would break forth in praise of the riches of the life given within! It seems that in this that we enjoy all, know all, and possess all.