By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.
So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.
Our condition is most noble being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.
Our perfection certainly consists in knowing God and ourselves.