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Aurora
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (73)
At first it gloweth, but when thou stirrest the source or fountain of the heart more violently, then it is as when thou blowest the fire, so that the flame is kindled; and then it is high time to quench it, else the fire will be too great, and then it burneth and consumeth, and does hurt to its neighbour. Question.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 4: Of the shortness of this work, and how it may not be come to by the curiosity of wit, nor by imagination (7)
For if it be truly conceived, it is but a sudden stirring, and as it were unadvised, speedily springing unto God as a sparkle from the coal. And it is...