The Innocent Joy In Natural Things.

It is the innocent joy in natural things the mystics of all ages and all faiths agree that attracts them. Poverty for a mystic is utter self-stripping. It is a complete detachment in joy from all finite things. By chastity he means an extreme and limpid purity of soul, virgin to all but God: By Obedience, it means that abnegation of selfhood that mortification of the will which results in a complete humility, a holy indifference to the accidents of life. Linked together these three aspects of perfection are really one.