Someone told me that while he was by himself speaking to the Spirit of God he said silently: Oh life of my soul, the face of my soul is resplendent in the beauty of thy Glory, and heaven and earth are entirely covered by its brightness, the deeps are illuminated by the blaze of thy light, and everything is taken away from before its face, and it has become as though non-existent; for it is united with thine incomprehensibility in an end without ending, so that the senses have been stilled into inactivity and the intellect into motionlessness. (D18)