The Interior Carmel: The Threefold Way of Love

"The more we are emptied of ourselves, the more we are filled with God. This presents in its essence the whole process of the spiritual life, with its polarity of negative and positive phases, or, as the Chinese would express it, the Yin and Yang aspects. This polarity between nature and grace, man and God, is patent in all the Beatitudes, of which the first is: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. This constitutes the starting-point of the way of love, and g...