“Listen, my daughter, lend your ear; forget your people and your father’s house, and the king will be taken by your beauty” (Ps 44:11)… It seems to me that this call is an invitation to silence. Listen; lend your ear. But to hear, we must forget the house of our father, that is, everything that holds to the natural life… Forgetting one’s people [means forgetting] the sensitive part of the soul, memories, impression, etc.: in a word, what we [often] call “me”.
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906)