From the Meditations of Guigues du Chastel, alias Guigo de Castro, the 11th-century Carthusian who was the Order's major founder after St Bruno, comes this passage (no. 399):

"The human soul is justifiably tormented for as long as it can be, in other words for as long as it loves something else more than God. No one cam lose God without wanting to ( Read more... )