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Servant of God John of St. Samson , also known as Jean du Moulin or Jean de Saint-Samson, was a French Carmelite friar and mystic of the Catholic Church. He is known as the soul of the Touraine Reform of the Carmelite Order, which stressed prayer, silence and solitude. John was blind from the age of three after contracting smallpox and receiving poor medical treatment for the disease. He insisted very strongly on the mystical devotion of the Carmelites. He has been referred to as the "French John of the Cross" by students of Christian mysticism. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. december 1571 – 1636
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“This love is so overpowering that the will alone enters the amorous bosom of love, where it savors an unutterable love beyond all understanding and expression. All the while, the dumbfounded intellect remains paralyzed at the gate.”

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From The Goad, the Flames, the Arrows and the Mirror of the love of God

“The worst of all human miseries is not to know God, not to feel Him, not to desire Him, not to taste Him.”

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From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

“The more a person strives after God, the more earnest he will become--the les he will converse with men.”

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From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

“I have three homes here below, each very appealing: The Cross, Love, and the Sepulchre; all of them are to me as One, and raise me above nature, and above its wearisome hold.”

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From The Holy Sepulchre Canticle

“The way to attain love is to love. A less excellent love leads to a greater love, and a greater love in turn leads to the highest love, as well as to the most excellent and ultimate fruits of active love. Each of these degrees has its own theory and practice. All of them, especially the last degrees, possess a simple, exalted, and singular contemplation of the divine Object, which constantly exerts a powerful influence on the soul and ravishes it with delight.”

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From The Goad, the Flames, the Arrows and the Mirror of the love of God

“Such is the effect of love's flood rushing into its lovers. It sweeps them away, ravishes them, and swamps them in its waves. These people become love itself — its spirit, its divinity — insofar as it is possible for any creature in this life.”

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From The Goad, the Flames, the Arrows and the Mirror of the love of God

“No one can be a true mystic who is not thoroughly versed in the ways of nature. The more nature is attracted by spiritual favors, the more it is inclined to make itself the master of them. Nature always mingles its own spirit with the spirit of God. unless we keep a close watch over it, it will always remain so. Natures most subtle snare is to lead us to confuse what is licit with what is expedient. When we doubt the inspiration of an impulse, whether from grace or nature, we should picture a similar object which is without doubt acceptable to nature. If this representation pleases us, it is a sign that the first inclination also comes from nature and is consequently to be rejected.”

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From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

“It is a wonder that any religious at all preserves a love for the true spirit of religious life in the midst of all these adversaries, and remains resolved to be really spiritual in spite of them and even of hell itself. Although their number is small, it does not matter. These few sparks will help to keep the religious state alive to God's honor and glory. p. 188”

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From Prayer, Aspiration, and Contemplation

“Perfect contemplatives hear without astonishment all that the learned propound since they excel in a science transcending all understanding.”

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From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

“Make use of this very simple aspiration: you and I, my love, you and I, you and I, and never another nor more! To which you could add some burning words like: "since you are entirely good and all goodness itself; since you are entirely glorious and all glory itself; since you are entirely holy and all holiness itself!”

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As quoted in Traditions of Spiritual Guidance (1987) by Michael Brundell.

“When the soul has been deeply touched, it is by love alone that it desires to be intimately joined to God. This is why we advocate reducing ardent aspiration to a few words, even to the mere word ‘love’. This love sends forth ardent and fiery flames with all its strength. As a result. A blazing divine fire is enkindled in the soul. It is in this way that God stirs up the soul and draws it strongly inward. p. 86”

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From Prayer, Aspiration, and Contemplation

“Simplicity is the loving inclination of the soul elevated by God, Who efficaciously drawn it into His own heart. There He reduces all its faculties to unity of spirit, that it may live there, in a n abstract, simple and essential condition, without sensible desire to reason or think of order or disorder. It is continually lost in the eternity of God.”

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From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

“We have been created in order to return to God through love, through his own love. In us it must be ardent, pure and unceasingly active, so that we expend all our energies and are consumed by it. Actually, we shall never be able to do or give anything that can sufficiently recompense him who is infinite Love. Before him every creature is deceitful, and in comparison with him, man is nothing. p. 140”

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From Prayer, Aspiration, and Contemplation

“Those who apply themselves more ardently to the practice of love, by that very face bring more devils upon their heads.”

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From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

“The heavenly Bridegroom allows small failings and common weaknesses in order to deliver his loved ones from pride.”

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From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

“We cannot imagine what a great love the angels have for those who are truly chaste. They take such special care of them that the devils can harm them only with difficulty and from a distance.”

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From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

“Aspiring then is an expression of love: a love so purely and radically expressed that it transcends all loves that are comprehensible by the senses, the reason or the intellect. By the impetuosity and force of the Spirit of God, it arrives at union with God, not by chance but by a sudden transformation of the spirit in God.”

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From The Goad, the Flames, the Arrows and the Mirror of the love of God