The way is surrender.

I understand well that only love can make us dear to God, therefore this love is the only good I strive for. Jesus shows me the only way that leads to this Divine furnace. That way is the surrender of a small child, who peacefully falls asleep in the arms of his Father…

(Thérèse of Lisieux, letter 196, to Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart, September 13, 1896)