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Rolle, Richard - Incendium Amoris - The hermit's life
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Richard Rolle - Incendium Amoris
For to him who chooses the hermit life for God's sake, and leads it rightly: to him it shall be, not ` Woe ' but `Winsome virtue.'
Moreover, as far as I could read in the Scriptures, I found and learnt that the highest love of Christ consists in three things: in heat, and song, and sweetness; and these three, I found in my own mind, cannot long remain without great quiet.
In the wilderness indeed they are more clearly present: for there the beloved speaks to the heart, even as a bashful lover, who does not caress his love before all men, nor does he kiss her as his friend, but only in the common manner, as a stranger.