A woman saint on her love of God....

Mechthild of Magdeburg expresses her spiritual experiences as below:

In overcoming the world

Renouncing all desires

And defeating the ego

The soul comes to God.

If the world gives blow

It causes no sorrow;

If the flesh gives her a kick,

The spirit does not fall sick.

Though the devil may dare

The soul does not care.

She loveth and loveth

And knows nothing other.

You will only feel free

If love possess you:

All your teaching is useless,

For I cannot be loveless.

I want to be imprisoned by love:

I cannot live without love:

Where it is, there I must go,

In life or death I dont know.

It is the foolishness of the fools

Who live without sorrow and heartache.