With all my heart. Do but think on the words of our Lord Jesus Christ
when he said: "Except ye be converted and become as little children ye
shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." There is no shorter way
than this, nor can a better way be found. Verily, Jesus saith unto thee,
Unless thou turn and become as a child, hanging upon him for all things,
thou shalt not see the Kingdom of God. This do and nothing shall hurt
thee; for thou shalt be at friendship with all the things that are, as
thou dependest upon the author and fountain of them, and becomest like
him, by such dependence, and by the Union of thy Will with his Will. But
mark what I have further to say, and be not thou startled at it, though
it may seem hard for thee at first to conceive. If thou wilt be like All
Things thou must forsake all things; thou must not extend thy will to
possess that for thine own, or as thine own, which is _Something_,
whatever that Something be. For as soon as ever thou takest _Something_
into thy desire, and receivest it into thee for thine own, or in
propriety, then this very Something (of what nature soever it is) is
the _same_ with thyself; and this worketh with thee in thy will, and
thou art thence bound to protect it, and take care of it, even as of thy
own being. But if thou dost receive _no thing_ into thy desire then thou
art free from all things, and rulest over all things at once, as a
Prince of God. For thou hast received nothing for thine own, and art
nothing to all things, and all things are as nothing unto thee. Thou art
as a child, which understands not what a thing is; and though thou dost
perhaps understand it, yet thou understandest it without mixing with it,
and without it sensibly affecting or touching thy perception, even in
that matter wherein God doth rule and see all things, he comprehending
All, and yet nothing comprehending him.