“We are all in the force field of love, but in the early stages of spiritual growth, its power is weak. We waver and can easily be thrown off in other directions. Conflicted emotions are at play, but more importantly, our perception of love is blocked.
Only after years of cleaning out the inner blockages of repression, doubt, negative emotions, and old conditioning does a person realize that God’s force is immensely powerful. When this occurs, nothing can pull the mind away from love.
Love as a personal emotion is transmuted into a cosmic energy. Rumi puts it beautifully: ‘Oh God! I have discovered love! How marvelous, how good, how beautiful it is! … I offer my salutation. To the spirit of passion that aroused and excited this whole universe. And all it contains.’
Rumi believes that every atom in creation dances in a passion for God, such is a stage six awareness. In stage six all gods and goddesses are aspects of oneself expressed as fine energy states. If you regard the soul as a kind of force field steadily pulling the mind toward it, every one of the seven stages can be described as the closing of separation.
Stage One: I am in such separation that sense deep fear inside.
Stage Two: I don’t feel so separate; i am gaining a sense of power.
Stage Three: Something larger than me is drawing near; I feel much more peaceful.
Stage Four: I am beginning to intuit wat that larger thing is — it must be God.
Stage Five: My actions and thoughts are drawing on God’s force field, as if we are both involved in everything.
Stage Six: God and I are almost together now. I feel no separation: my mind is God’s mind.
Stage Seven: I see no difference between myself and God. 
It takes a quantum leap in consciousness to love God all the time, yet when the leap is finally made, there is really no God to love, not as a separate object. The fusion of the worshiper and what he worships is nearly complete. But that is enough to animate everything in creation.
‘This is the love,’ Rumi declares, ‘that brings our body to life.’ ”
How To Know God – The Soul’s Journey Into The Mystery Of Mysteries, Deepak Chopra, p. 145-147, 290.