Many questions appear very complicated when considered in theory, but on the practical plane everything becomes clear and simple. This is especially the case if we can reduce all to Jesus himself, not merely his doctrine, his Gospel, his Church, his public life, but his Person: that divine and human unity so completely full, perfect, and harmonious, in which all his perfections are so wonderfully merged that one no longer notices them; where his greatness is so simple and his simplicity so great; where there are so many perspectives and horizons that the more one contemplates them, the more one advances and the more one discovers to admire, to love, and to imitate; where in the end we find Someone who loves us, who gives himself to us, and becomes our father, our mother, our brother, sister, friend, and spouse-he himself has said it-and much more still, for our words remain at an infinite distance from that boundless Reality. March as long as you like, and as rapidly as you like, and you will still have far to go, and you will still want, more and more, to go…They that drink me shall yet thirst.
Continue, then, to apply yourself ever more deeply to the study of Our Lord, especially as you feel drawn that way. He himself is the great Source from whom everything flows. We know nothing truly, we comprehend nothing, unless we know him. He is the true Light that lightens and explains everything.
Dom Augustin Guillerand, O. Cart.
Dom Augustin Guillerand (1945) was a French Carthusian monk and a revered spiritual author.