Place yourself in the Presence of God with a pure and simple loving attention to that Immense Good in a sacred silence of love, resting your spirit entirely in this sacred silence on the loving bosom of the Eternal God. When this recollection ends, arouse your spirit gently with a dart of love: “Oh, dear Goodness!” “Oh, Infinite Love!” “Oh, dear God! I am yours.” “Oh, Infinite Sweetness!” Use these and others as God inspires you. But be alert so that, if, in making one of these darts of love, your soul grows peaceful and recollected in God, there is no need to make further acts. Rather, continue this loving silence, this repose of your spirit in God, which contains in itself, in a higher way, all possible discursive acts that we could ever make
- St Paul of the Cross