‘But what do I love when I love you? Not the beauty of any body or the
rhythm of time in its movement; not the radiance of light, so dear to our eyes;
not the sweet melodies in the world of manifold sounds; not the perfume of
flowers, ointments and spices; not manna and not honey; not the limbs so
delightful to the body’s embrace: it is none of these things that I love when I
love my God. And yet when I love my God I do indeed love a light and a sound
and a perfume and a food and an embrace – a light and sound and perfume and
food and embrace in my inward self. There my soul is flooded with a radiance
which no space can contain; there a music sounds which time never bears away;
there I smell a perfume which no wind disperses; there I taste a food that no
surfeit embitters; there is an embrace which no satiety severs. It is this that
I love when I love my God.’ St. Augustine of Hippo"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." Deuteronomy 6:5
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