06-11

Something more needs to be said about people who wait
for something to flow in. The only people of this kind who
actually receive anything are the few who deeply long for
it. They occasionally receive a kind of answer through a
vivid impression or a subtle voice in their thinking, but
rarely through anything obvious. In any case, what they
receive leaves them to think and act the way they want
to and the way they can. If they act wisely they become
wise, and if they act stupidly they become stupid. They
are never told what to believe or what to do; otherwise
their human rationality and freedom would be destroyed.
That is, things are managed so that they act freely and rationally,
and to all appearances, autonomously.
—Divine Providence 321:3