Your enjoyment of the World is never right till every morning you awake in Heaven; see yourself in your Father’s Palace, and look upon the earth and air as celestial joys, having such reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the Angels. The bride of a monarch, in her husband’s chamber, hath no such causes of delight as you…Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God as misers do in gold, and kings in scepters, you can never enjoy the world.

Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations (1636-1674)