Then Brother Giles said to a cetrain friar, "Father, I would fain know what is contemplation?" And the friar answered: "Father, truly I know not." Then Brother Giles said: "To me it seems that contemplation is a divine fire, a sweet devotion infused by the Holy Ghost, a rapture and suspension of the mind inebriated by the unspeakable savour of divine sweetness, and a sweet and tranquil enjoyment of the soul which is rapt and suspended in loving admiration of the glories of heaven, and an inward burning conscousness of that celestial and unspeakable glory."
LITTLE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS
Part Four
Chapter XI
OF HOLY PRAYER
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