SDD 285 - Alice: You make me feel the joy of being with You, Lord. Your penetrating and tender closeness. What did you tell me then?
JESUS: That I am here to strengthen you for the tasks that await you soon. Lay everything before Me and trust. I will take you in and do what you ask. Come and enjoy My Love.

Alice: What will happen there, with You, since Your delicate touches cause so much sweetness?
JESUS: There will be a constant ecstasy much stronger - complete.

Alice: What happens here, when You are so close? Why the feeling of fainting, of the body melting away?
JESUS: If I unite myself with your soul, the body dies - it ceases to exist in your perception. And it really is so. Complete unity is synonymous with the complete death of the body. When I fill your soul, everything corporeal in you and around you disappears. You are only with Me without obstacles or limitations.
As long as you live in the body, My touches are very delicate, because man cannot meet Me face to face and still live in the body.

Alice: This is what is said in the Scripture.
JESUS: And so it is in reality, and that is why ecstasy is connected with the feeling of dying.

SDD 317 - Your path is the path of blind trust and surrendering everything to Me. The moment is near and I need disciplined and obedient souls. Such that recognize My voice and do everything that I command immediately.

SDD 394 - ... Because you see, My child, before being nailed to the cross, the garments of this world are stripped.
In order to enter the deepest layer of your soul, you must be completely naked. The only place where you should return is the depth of your soul, where I am. So, come back. Then external reality, as well as those layers of reality in which thoughts and feelings reside, will be beyond you. They will have no significance. Also the thoughts and feelings of others, by which you feel trapped. It happened because you wanted to take on all that weighs on them, in order to free them. Now, come back. I will cleanse you and free you.

Eccl 4,1a, 4a.2a - And then I saw all the oppressions that happen under the sun. And behold: the tears of the oppressed,... I also saw that every effort and every success in work gives rise to envy in one's neighbor... ...So, I considered the dead who have long since passed away as happy...

So die to the world, so that you may live with Me in the depths of your soul.

Alice: And when will you be nailed to the cross?
JESUS: Right then and right there. That is why My Love is sweetness and pain - because it is crucified.

SSD 395 - JESUS: Write down what is happening in your heart.

Alice: There is a call to you, my God. A huge call and longing and desire. But it is also joy because you are, because I belong to you. And I know your love and your tenderness and your power.