In your occupations, try to ...

In your occupations, try to possess your soul in peace. It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom yourself to do whatever you have to do with tranquility, in order that you may retain the possession of yourself and of settled peace.
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 Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

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How can they be delivered from the life of self, who are not willing to abandon all their possessions? How can they believe themselves despoiled of all, who possess the greatest treasure under heaven? Do not oblige me to name it, but judge, if you are enlightened; there is one of them which is less than the other, which is lost before it, but which those who must lose everything have the greatest trouble in parting with.
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 Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Self-seeking is the gate by which a soul departs from peace; and total abandonment to the will of God, that by which it returns.
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 Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
God causes us to promise in time of peace what He exacts from us in time of war; He enables us to make our abandonments in joy, but He requires the fulfilment of them in the midst of much bitterness.
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Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow!
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 Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love; to which inclinations God responds, and instructs the soul, which co-operates actively. God then puts the soul in a passive state where He accomplishes all, causing great progress, first by way of enjoyment, then by privation, and finally by pure love.
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 Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon