can come to know himself as he is, and this is what it means to be touched by God from without. Sometimes a person is also touched from within, as when he reflects on the sufferings of our Lord and on the good that God has done for him and for all persons. Or again, this may occur through a person’s consideration of his sins and of the shortness of life, through the fear of death and of hell, through reflection on the eternal pains of hell and the eternal joy of heaven, or through the knowledge that