Symeon the New Theologian

Symeon's first passage was similar to Al-Muhasibi in that he's talking about plunging into God's vision. Most of these writers talk about focusing all your attention on God, getting God's vision, forgetting about the world, yet of all these, I loved how Symeon phrased it. "When a man walks into the sea up to his knees or waist, he can see the water all around him. But when he dives into the water, he can no longer see anything outside, and he knows only that his whole body is in the water." Once you get God's vision, all you can see is that vision, and the whole world isn't even a thought or even in your line of vision.
Another theme in these writings is that God is all-knowing, we can't even comprehend what he knows or even who he is... and we never will. He says it very clearly here, "The more a man enters the light of understanding, the more aware he is of his own ignorance." It's so funny, because when you first look at this sentence it appears that it is contradicting itself. If you are entering into the light of understanding, and going deeper and deeper into understanding, aren't you understanding more? Yet the more you learn, the more ignorant you realize you are.