Love cannot rest until it has sounded all the depths and learnt the perfections of its Beloved. It desires to be one with him, and, if it could, it would form but one being with the Beloved… Love has the power of uniting and transforming; it transforms the one who loves into him who is loved, and him who is loved into him who loves. Each passes into the other, as far as it is possible… How completely love transports the loved one into him who loves!

Saint Albert the Great