The wound made by an iron heated in the fire of love cannot be healed by any other medication except by the same cautery that made it and will cure it. Because each time the cautery of love touches the wound of love, it enlarges the wound, and, in this way, the more it wounds, the more it binds and heals. For the one who loves is all the more healthy in that he is distressed; and the cure brought by love is to distress and to add one wound on top of the other, and in the end the wound of love... Oh happy wound caused by the one who alone knows how to heal!
John of the Cross
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