There are some souls which cause me great suffering. These are selfish
souls, full of compromises, speculations and human arrangements, and
desiring others to accommodate themselves to their humors and
inclinations. I find myself unable to administer in the least degree
to their self-love; and when I would be a little complaisant, a Master,
more powerful than myself, restrains me. I cannot give such persons
any other place in my heart, than God gives them. I cannot adapt
myself to their superficial state, neither respond to their professions
of friendship; these are very repulsive to my feelings.
The love which dwells in my heart, is not a natural love, but arises
from a depth which rejects, what is not in correspondence with it, or
rather what is not in unison with the heart of God. I cannot be with a
child without caressing it, nor with a child-like soul without a tender
attachment. I do not regard the exterior, but the state of the soul;
its affinity and oneness with God. The only perfect union, is the
union of souls in God; such as exists in heaven, and on earth after the
resurrection, life takes effect in the soul.