Anyone who loves God in the
depths of his heart has already been loved by God. In fact, the measure
of a man’s love for God depends upon how deeply aware he is of God’s love for
him. When this awareness is keen it makes whoever possesses it long to
be enlightened by the divine light, and this longing is so intense that it
seems to penetrate his very bones. He loses all consciousness of himself and is
entirely transformed by the love of God.
~From the treatise On Spiritual Perfection
by Diadochus of Photice
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