Seeking Love
“Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have
I loved you. And see, you were within
and I was in the external world and sought you there, and my unlovely state I
plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with
you. The lovely things kept me far from
you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence
at all. You called and cried out loud
and shattered my deafness. You were
radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath
and now pant after you. I tasted you,
and I feel but hunger and thirst for you.
You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is
yours.”
-Augustine
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