“To love God does not mean to cultivate a sentiment − that is to say, something we enjoy without knowing whether God enjoys it − but to eliminate from the soul what prevents God from entering it.”

—  Frithjof Schuon

[2005, Stations of Wisdom, World Wisdom, 93, 978-0-94153218-1]
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