“Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.” MenEarthTogetherHeavenTaughtStonesInfiniteWingsCharityBrilliantBurningContemplationLaddersJacobTranscending Author:Juan Donoso Cortes
“The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.” IfsMindSoulHeavenNaturalTakenDivineCorruptionFleshContemplationPeace Within Author:Seneca the Younger
“Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation.” GivingMindKindHeavenGive MeContemplationStationsHonourSerene Author:John Gay