Recognizing True Transformation
Fevered with love's anxiety, the soul is consumed by delay. The greater the longing for union, the more impatient at any delay. It stops treating transformation as a project to complete and suffers the wait for a union it cannot arrange. Seeking arrival is often the last false transformation.
Key Insight
When you need to become someone less than you need the thing itself, the costume has slipped. Hunger is a better test than a finished program.
“For the greater the longing which the soul has for union with God, the more impatient it becomes at any delay, and the more it is consumed.”Full analysis
