In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

Just as the expansion and contraction of our lungs in necessary for the continuance of our physical life, so regular fellowship with God in prayer is essential to our spiritual well-being. Without prayer our spiritual lives will shrivel up and return to an infantile state.

It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.

Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters

The unseen essential awaits your enlightened heart's ascension to love.