Внутренний мир
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In each of you there is a world of indescribable beauty, in which lies many pure delights, unspeakable joys. Enter within yourself and they will open to you. However, do not expect delight from prayer, do not be discouraged when you do not feel joy. After all, it happens like this: you stand in a church, and inside it’s as if there’s not a heart, but a piece of wood, and the piece of wood has not yet been planed. Well, thank God for that, that is, for the piece of wood! So it was necessary. After all, another soul, having experienced high delights, can even imagine itself, but the state of “petrified insensibility” humbles it. And in general, we cannot demand prayerful delight from God. Prayerful work is required of us, and joy is sent from God when it pleases God and our benefit.
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