“BUT with what pain must we purchase such a light of the Holy Spirit! It must needs be, in short, that our mind is interiorly dislocated, that it opens wide to the point of stretching itself out, in order to make contact with the Infinite as he is himself. That is a terrible moment; the mystics call it the great desolation of the great darkness. That which gave the light to our eyes, none of that is with us any more. We must give up the natural movements of our mind when faced with facts; we must, as it were, annihilate the act of the mind taking pleasure in what it sees. It is painful, but this pain engenders a great joy. This entire docility, going to the limit of renouncing even the forces of the mind, renders to God the only homage worthy of his majesty.”
— — The Holy Spirit in Christian Life, by Père Gardeil, O.P (Blackfriars, 1953)
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