On the way, I was thinking about the formation program for postulants. Above all, let's teach them to smile: at God, at trials, at unpleasant people, at everyone who needs joy… This is a good recipe for thinking of others, and not of oneself… Then let's teach them to empty out: to remove all complexities, all states of soul… to empty…, to empty…, to empty… Only then will God's love come rushing in to fill everything and overflow.
(small sister Magdalena of Jesus /1898–1989/, correspondence I/232)
