meditation) is this, that if I began to weep over the passion of our Lord, I could not finish without having a violent headache; it was the same when I wept for my sins. Our Lord thus bestowed a great favour upon me. I am not now desirous of examining which is best, this or that, but I wish I could explain the difference between one and the other. Tears sometimes flow for these things, and desires arise aided by our nature and constitution; but, as I have said, they at last end in God; and, even