…around it, personified by the step-parent and the daughters. This psychic life, as in the more historical account of Saint Francis of Assisi, turns inward to begin the development of an internal world of beauty. This internal world of beauty must lead to…

…which is contrary to the fulfillment of this aspiration, we may have examples of Mr. as in the case of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis of Sales, and many others of the mystics, Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Santa Teresa. These represent the individual…

…marvelous changes took place which cannot be normally accounted for on the level of ordinary conduct. Thus Christianity has its Saint Francis of Assisi. It has its Saint Buena Ventura. It has its mystics. It has its prophets. So have the ancient sects of…

…their causes, in their spirit, and in the source and substance of their motivations. Such universal consciousness, as Saint Francis of Assisi points out, it shows with it universal compassion. The individual ceases forever to judge because judgment is a mind…

…therefore became a shadow symbol, a word symbol for the supreme passion of the human soul, the passion of Saint Francis of Assisi, the passion of Saint Buenaventura and Santa Teresa, the passion of those in whose spiritual experience there is this…

…is worse than bad. We do not have the right attitude on these things. We have not been willing to accept these realities. Francis of Assisi was well aware of this. He came from a rather bad background. He was a rather difficult young man. But when he…