But contemplation is something else, daughters. This is the mistake we all make, that if a person spends a little time each day thinking about his sins—for he is obliged to do that if he is a Christian more than in name—they immediately say he is a very contemplative soul and they want him to possess at once virtues as great as those a very contemplative soul is obliged to have; and even the person himself wants this, but is mistaken. In the beginning he didn’t know how to set up the game. He thought
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