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God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. ~1JN 4:16

Live totally in God and for God, and receive with humble simplicity as much as God is pleased to communicate to your soul, but with a great detachment, seeing to it that your heart never attaches itself to the lights, consolations, or other gifts, but rather to the Light of lights, to the font of all consolation, to the Giver of every true gift, rejoicing to walk in purity of true faith and holy love. For all that you can understand, sense, or taste is not God, but infinitely less and beyond comparison. “He inhabits light inaccessible.” ~Paul of the Cross' letter to Thomas Fossi  (162nd letter on December 27, 1771 in Vol. 3 on Page 602 for Paul's Letter 1945)

An excerpt from John of the Cross' poem, "Romances - First Romance: On the Gospel - Regarding the Most Blessed Trinity" (The Father to the Son):

You are the light of My light,
You are My wisdom,
The image of My substance
In Whom I am well pleased.

My Son, I will give Myself
To him who loves You,
And I will love him
With the same love I have for You,
Because he has loved
You Whom I love so

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