10 June 2009

in love with Love

Now the soul's hunger is desire. Hence a soul that truly loves God is insatiable in love because God is love; whoever loves God is in love with Love. To love Love completes a circle so that love may never end.

frater Yvo, Epistola ad Severinum de caritate, 12th century
Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses (2003: 138)