Monday of Lent Week 1

"Be on peaceful terms with your soul, then heaven and earth will be on peaceful terms with you. Be zealous to enter the treasury within you, then you will see that which is in heaven. For the former and the latter are one, and entering you will see both. The ladder unto the Kingdom is hidden within you and within your soul. Dive into yourself [freed] from sin, there you will find steps along which you can ascend" (from The Mystical Treatises of St. Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 2, 12).