It can also happen that from time to time a certain stillness, without any insights, can fall upon a person

this is the harbour full of rest of which our Fathers speak in their writings | (describing) how on occasion (human) nature enters there | when it has drawn close to the entrance point of a spiritual mode of existence. | This (stage) is the beginning of the entry into the third high point, namely the spiritual mode of being. | It is with his eyes set on this harbour that the solitary | from the time of his discipleship until he reaches the grave | undertakes all the labour of body and of soul | allowing himself to be buffetted about by all the vicissitudes which these involve. | Once the solitary has come near this entrance point | henceforth he will make straight for the harbour as he draws close to the spiritual mode of being | from this point onwards astonishing things take place for him | and he receives the pledge of the New World. | 7.2, pp. 23-4