LOL! I'll just have to be a wealth of surprises then. Thanks for the quotes. That's some pretty deep material.
"That's some pretty deep material."
Indeed it is; I didn't even give you any +Gregory Palamas. The Fathers can be like that. And there's 36 volumes more of that depth in the set of the Ante and Post Nicene Fathers some of us here on FR have access to.
The middle quote, from The Ladder of Divine Ascent, speaks to what happens when the "nous", the "eye of the soul" becomes almost totally focused on God so that one effectively dies to the self and becomes completely subsumed in God. This is the near end result of what The Church in the East calls theosis and as you can see by all three of the quotes, this is accomplished by God's uncreated energies or grace alone.
I look forward to you surprising me! read the Fathers. You might surprise yourself! :)