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“Intimate Understanding and Relish of the Truth”

From the Spiritual Exercises:The one who explains to another the method and order of meditating or contemplating should narrate exactly the facts of the contemplation or meditation.  Let him adhere to the points, and add only a short or summary explanation.  The reason for this is that when one in meditating takes the solid foundation of facts, and goes over it and reflects on it for himself, he may find something that makes them a little clearer or better understood. . . . This produces greater spiritual relish and fruit than if one giving the Exercises had explained and developed the meaning at great length.  For it is not so much knowledge that fills and satisfies the soul, but the intimate understanding and relish of the truth.  (SE 2)

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