Wounded Love

The Lord makes the soul desire Him vehemently by certain delicate means the soul itself does not understand. They proceed from very deep within the interior part of the soul. For often when a person is distracted and even forgetful of God, His majesty will awaken it. His action is as quick as a falling comet. And as clearly as it hears a thunderclap, even though no sound is heard, the soul understands that it was called by God. It feels that it is wounded in the most exquisite way. It knows clearly that the wound is something precious and it would never want to be cured. The wound satisfies it much more than the delightful and painless absorption of the prayer of quiet, a whisper so penetrating that the soul cannot help but hear it.

St. Teresa of Avila