What remains for a person who has achieved union with God? They are left with a soul full of God and a body full of suffering. However, God's gaze penetrates to the depths of this soul so often that every suffering seems insignificant, and God reveals to them in a single flash, during each of His visits to their inner being, what they must do.
(John Tauler OP /1300–1361/, sermon 57.8)