Be Docile to the Holy Spirit

"O Holy Spirit, make me docile to Your action and always willing to be guided and directed by You."

"In what concerns sanctity, we are always like school children,m apprentices who, having only a rudimentary knowledge of the art they are learning, are always in need of direction and suggestions from their teacher.  Our Teacher of sanctity is none other than the Holy Spirit...That is why the whole work of our sanctification can be reduced to a question of docility to the divine Paraclete...

"But very often, alas! our will still remains hard, stubborn, and intractable because it is so attached to creatures especially to that one creature, the 'ego' which we blindly cherish.  Hence, to cooperate with the action of the Holy Spirit, the first requirement is the painstaking effort to detach ourselves from everything, especially from ourselves.  Detachment will free us from numerous bonds which, like cords, tie us to creatures, making our docility and submissiveness to the Holy Spirit an impossibility...

"the Paraclete is not content simply to invite us to what is good, but He wishes to take the initiative, impelling us more effectively toward God.  However, He respects our liberty, and will not make Himself Master of our will unless we are disposed to give it to Him freely.  And here we can set up another obstacle to His action:...Perhaps we cooperate partially, giving Him something of what He asks, but we do not give Him 'all'.  We must therefore, cultivate the spirit of 'totality' which puts no limits on our giving.  We must have a magnanimous heart and not retard the work of the Holy Spirit, who will to bring us, not only, to good actions but to generous, heroic, saintly ones."  --from Divine Intimacy, #192.