With your eyes you cannot conceive of anything except by its length or breadth, its smallness or largeness, its roundness or squareness, its distance or nearness, and its colour; with your ears, only by its noise or some kind of sound; with
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“It is pure love when you ask God neither for release from punishment nor for increase of reward, nor even for the sweetness of his love in this life – unless it happens that you desire the sweetness at a particular time, to refresh your spiritual powers so that they do not fail on the way – but when you ask God for nothing but himself. And you have neither care nor concern whether you will be in pain or in bliss, so long as you have him whom you love. This is pure love.”
― The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
― The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works
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