' By Love It Perceives '...

For the soul’s sense is love;

by love it perceives whatever it perceives;

alike when it is pleased and when it is offended.

When the soul reaches out in love to anything,

a certain change takes place in it by which it is transmuted into the object loved;

it does not become of the same nature as that object,

but by its affection it is conformed to what it loves.



— William of St. Thierry