A full belly does not make for a chaste spirit.
The strongest and purest love is not the one that starts from impressions, but the one that comes from admiration.
It is only through shadows that one comes to know the light.
Out of darkness is born the light.
Heaven is along the way.
To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.