If We Truly Knew You We Wouldn't Care at all About Anything

O my Lord, if we truly knew You we wouldn't care at all about anything, for You give much to those who sincerely want to trust in You! Believe, my friends, that it is a great thing to have knowledge of this truth so that you can then see that all favors here below are a lie when they divert the soul somewhat from entering within itself. Oh, God help me, who will make you understand this! Certainly, no I; for I know that I, who more than anyone should understand, have not succeeded in understanding it as it should be understood.

- St. Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection, 29:3