Cautionary

Without sharing, without companionship, without communion with others, even the secrecy of the contemplative life, which is integral to it, remains incomplete. Nevertheless, there is no experience in which it is more essential to be more delicate when it comes to who, and when, and how, and why to witness, than in expressing the direct experience of God itself. It is better to be totally lacking in self-confidence in this than to try to give away either what one has not more fully understood (and whoever does fully understand?), or in teaching/preached it with enthusiasm (which amounts to the involvement of ourselves in something which is wholly of God), or that is simply not wanted (in the end how many can even rationalize setting their own conceited ambitions aside, let alone bring themselves to do it, even when they might see the benefits in doing so?). Becoming absorbed in this business of communicating that which is ultimately uncommunicable you will become mired in language and reasoning and metaphor. God gives simple light to those who love God with their whole heart. Trying to say something attractive about it in order to instruct or draw others in is a most grave mistake.