Holy consideration of God in spiritual things!—which, as of its nature it does not breed fancies of the imagination, so it will not breed dreams. The consideration which belongs to the first degree is more interrupted, this is more stable and more exalted. Hence it produces all its effects with more excellence, namely, a livelier love and more spiritual joyousness: to which God adding His grace forbids with a more particular solicitude that she should be awakened….  – – St Francis de Sales ‘Commentary on the Canticle of Canticles’

Artist Marc Chagall–Musee Marc Chag all