Feeding the Soul

Grace endlessly creates ever new eyes to look upon ever new suns....

Spiritual nourishment increases the capacity of the soul that receives it; perpetual growth does not imply dissatisfaction.  Like the stream or the waterfall, the soul uses all that it receives and is content, even while flowing out of itself.  Always filled to capacity, it can always receive more.

The important point is that the soul's desire is at every moment filled.  As the Source of good keeps flowing and welling up without end, so too, the participant grows more and more in desire...nothing it receives is lost or left unused, and everything that flows in produces an increase in capacity....In this way, no matter how much it receives, it is merely the beginning of a greater and superior stage.

Thus, each stage of spiritual growth is the development of an entirely new reality--a new creation.  As often as He says, "Arise, and Come," He gives to the soul the power to rise and to progress.  Only the flesh can know satiety; the spirit never grows tired.    ---from the writings of Gregory of Nyssa