Symeon the new theologian

This reading had some good analogies and descriptions of what knowing and seeing God is like. I really liked the analogy of how some people accept the vision of God and see God as a real thing that is everywhere around them, like someone seeing water when stepping into a pool or a lake. But for the people who are fully submerged in water, all there is is water, and this is how it is for believers who are fully submerged in the vision of God. Everything around them is God, they can't even see anything else, and so nothing else matters.