
“When you looked at me
your eyes imprinted your grace in me;
for this you loved me ardently;
and thus my eyes deserved
to adore what they beheld in you. . . .
Let us go forth to behold ourselves in your beauty.”
—John of the Cross, “The Spiritual Canticle,” stanzas 32, 36
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