“I have read many books on how to go to God and how to practice the spiritual life. It seems these methods serve more to puzzle me than to help, for what I sought after was simply how to become wholly God’s. So I resolved to give all for ALL. Then I gave myself wholly to my God, I renounced everything that was not His. I did this to deal with my sins, and because of my love for Him, I began to live as if there were nothing, absolutely nothing but Him. So upon his earth I began to seek to live as though there were only the Lord and me in the whole world.”
Nicholas Herman (a.k.a. Brother Lawrence) from Practicing the Presence of God, Letter 1, August 3, 1666