“In the beginning I dwelt in the Paradise of God, where Man was naked. Or rather, I was in Man, and of his Essence when he was naked, walking with him in that spacious Paradise, fearing nothing, doubting nothing, thinking no Evil. I thought to have stayed with him forever, for he had been created by the Most High…for possessing Nothing, he belonged wholly to God”
–The Lady Poverty: a XIII century Allegory; with a chapter on the spiritual significance of evangelical poverty, by Father Cuthbert, o. s. f. g.