They wish to dissuade me
From all that the forces of Love urge me to.
They do not understand it, and I cannot explain it to them.
I must then live out what I am;
What Love counsels my spirit,
In this is my being: for this reason I will do my best.

Hadewijch (CWS) (1980 edition), Paulist Press - ISBN: 9780809122974