If we are to live by the law of love, a law which makes nothing foreign to us, it is imperative to bring the life of the whole universe into one’s our own life. Nothing more, nothing less. I cannot accept simply being the “person I am.” I cannot and I will not. 

The whole universe must live and find a voice in me. The whole universe becomes one in me, so far as I am in Christ.

Gathering on October 1st, 1961 held in Florence