Obviously these thoughts are good and holy, and they’re required of anyone serious about contemplation. This is something of a paradox. For without countless sweet meditations on these very subjects—our agony, our shame, Christ’s Passion, God’s kindness, God’s unfailing goodness, and God’s worth—the contemplative person won’t advance. But the man or woman experienced in these meditations must quit them. Put them down and hold them far under the cloud of forgetting, if you want to penetrate the cloud of unknowing between you and God.
