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My sole occupation is love.
All my occupation now is the practice of the love of God, all the powers of soul and body, memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, the desires of spirit and of sense, all work in and by love. All I do is done in love; all I suffer, I suffer in the sweetness of love.

— John of the Cross

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There is nothing better or more necessary than love.

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2002)

One human thought alone is worth more than the entire world, hence God alone is worthy of it.

In a word, it is for this love that we are all created.

When the soul, then, in any degree possesses the spirit of solitary love, we must not interfere with it.

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