God became man in order to make me God; The soul becomes like gold that becomes purer as it is fired, all dross being cast out. Having come to the point of twenty-four carats, gold cannot be purified any further; and this is what happens to the soul in the fire of God's love therefore I want to be changed completely into pure God

In: Ecstatic Confessions: The Heart of Mysticism (Syracuse University Press, 1996), Martin Buber, p. 109