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The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Vol. II is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume includes the Spiritual Canticle between the Soul and Christ,The Living Flame of Love, plus John of the Cross’ verse-by-verse commentary on the poems. Also included are Instructions and Cautions, Spiritual Maxims, seventeen letters, and twenty shorter poems. Paraphrasing the Song of Songs, Spiritual Canticle explores the image of passionate love as describing the mystical sufferings...

into confusion, disquietude on that account would be vanity, because that disquietude would do more harm than good. 120. To endure all things with an equable and peaceful mind, not only brings with it many blessings to the soul, but it also enables us, in the midst of our difficulties, to have a clear judgment about them, and to minister the fitting remedy for them. 121. It is not the will of God that the soul should be troubled by anything, or that it should be afflicted; for if men are afflicted
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