Drop the book without scruple

"When contemplation makes us drop the book from our hands, there is nothing more for us to do than to let it fall without worry."

"Quand le recueillement nous fait tomber le livre des mains, il n’y a qu’à le laisser tomber sans scrupule."

     François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon, Maxims of the saints 20.True, trans. Chad Helms, Classics of Western spirituality (New York:  Paulist Press, 2006), 262.  I was put onto this by Dictionnaire de spiritualité, sv Lectio divina et lecture spirituelle III (col. 502), by André Boland.  French from the critical edition of 1911, ed. A. Chérel, p. 242, here.