At my "new workplace" (I mean "The Science of the Cross") I am like a child taking its first steps. The Holy Spirit must help you not only in your work but also in overcoming the crises that can easily arise during work. No spiritual work comes into the world without great pains. It also tries to take hold of the whole person – and we must not allow that. It is good that our religious duties and daily routine protect us, that they guard us from being completely consumed by work. But we do not achieve balance just like that; the effort to cope with both the work and the duties leaves its marks on us...
(Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, letter to a friend, May 16, 1941)
