To become divine is the aim of life

The centre of life is neither in thought
nor in feeling, nor in will, nor even in consciousness,
so far as it thinks, feels, or
wishes. For moral truth may have been
penetrated and possessed in all these ways,
and escape us still. Deeper even than consciousness
there is our being itself, our very
substance, our nature. Only those truths
which have entered into this last region,
which have become ourselves, become spontaneous
and involuntary, instinctive and
unconscious, are really our life—that is to
say, something more than our property. So
long as we are able to distinguish any space
whatever between the truth and us we remain
outside it. The thought, the feeling,
the desire, the consciousness of life, are not
yet quite life. But peace and repose can
nowhere be found except in life and in eternal
life, and the eternal life is the divine
life, is God. To become divine is then the
aim of life : then only can truth be said to

be ours beyond the possibility of loss, because
it is no longer outside us, nor even
in us, but we are it, and it is we ; we ourselves
are a truth, a will, a work of God.
Liberty has become nature ; the creature is
one with its creator — one through love.
It is what it ought to be ; its education is
finished, and its final happiness begins.
The sun of time declines and the light of
eternal blessedness arises.
Our fleshly hearts may call this mysticism.
It is the mysticism of Jesus :
' I am
one with my Father ; ye shall be one with
me. We will be one with you.'

Amiel