' When the Ego is Surrendered '...

“When in the intensity of its love for God, the intellect goes out of itself,, then it has no sense of itself, or of any created thing... For when it is illumined by the infinite light of God,, it becomes insensible, to everything made by Him,, as the eye becomes insensible to the stars, when the sun rises.” ............... Maximus the Confessor,, Four Hundred Chapters on Love I.10...