Spiritual Warfare (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3)

The simple fact is that it’s a bloody mess, and the love-and-bliss crowd doesn’t sign up for that. They want the enlightenment that doesn’t include relinquishing one’s place among fellow water-treaders. They don’t want to stop treading, don’t want to slip, alone, into blackness. They want the other enlightenment, the one where they can stay with th

the awareness that there is nothing you can do is the most important realization you can have.

J. P. de Caussade’s Abandonment of the Divine Providence,