There are very few souls who live in their inmost self and out of their inmost region; and still fewer souls who constantly live from and out of their deepest interior. According to their nature – that is, their fallen nature – these persons keep themselves in the outer room of the castle which is their soul. What approaches them from outside draws them to the outside. It is necessary that God call and draw them insistently so as to move them to enter into themselves.
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross