The strength and vehemence of love has this trait: Everything seems possible to it, and it believes everyone is occupied as it is; it does not believe anyone could be employed in any other way or seek anyone other then him whom it seeks and loves; it believes there is nothing else to desire or to occupy it and that everyone is engaged in seeking and loving him When the bride went searching for her Beloved in the plazas and suburbs, she thought that others were doing the same and told them that if the found him they should tell him she was suffering for love of him (Sg. 3:2, 5:8). Mary’s love was so ardent that she thought she would go and take Jesus away, however great the impediment, if the gardener would tell where he was hidden. (After St John of the Cross, ‘The Dark Night’ book 2 ch 13).
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