When the power of stillness overshadows you on account of prolonged abiding in your cell

then at first you will find a joy which without cause overcomes your soul at times and seasons | and thereupon according to the degree of your purity | your eyes will be opened to see God’s creative power and the beauty of created things. | And when the mind is guided by the wonder of this divine vision | then night and day will be as one to it | because of its awe at the glorious creations of God. | Hereafter the awareness of the passions is stolen from the very soul herself | by the sweetness of this divine vision | and by means of divine vision she enters into the two levels of noetic revelations | which are placed in order after this one | which both come of purity | and transcend it. | Homily 65, p. 467