“Nothing can live in Love, and nothing can touch her except desire. The most secret name of Love is this touch, and this mode of working rises from Love itself. For Love is incessantly desiring, touching, and feeding on herself, while remaining totally perfect in herself.
Love can live in all things. Love can live in charity towards others: charity cannot live in Love. Mercy cannot live in Love, nor can graciousness, nor humility, nor reason, nor fear. Nor can meanness, nor balance. Nothing lives in Love. Yet Love lives in all these, and they are fed on Love. Love is fed by nothing but her own fullness.”
Hadewijch of Antwerp (13th century poet and mystic)
Chorlton Unitarians 