" If we love Him, our heart will not consider itself, nor look to its own pleasure or profit, but to the honour, glory, and pleasure of God; for the more the heart is occupied with self, the less is it occupied with God. Whether God has really stolen our heart may be ascertained by either of these two signs:—Is it anxiously seeking after God ? and has it no pleasure in anything but in Him, "

― John of the Cross , The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Volume 2 of 2