“Seeking him, finding him, getting to know him, loving him”
Interior life is strengthened by a daily struggle in your practices of piety, which you should fulfil - or rather which you should live - lovingly, for the path we travel as children of God is a path of Love. (The Forge, 83)
I have distinguished as it were four stages in our effort to identify ourselves with Christ: seeking him, finding him, getting to know him, loving him. It may seem clear to you that you are only at the first stage. Seek him then, hungrily; seek him within yourselves with all your strength. If you act with determination, I am ready to guarantee that you have already found him, and have …