Love And The Ascension

Quia amor tamen cordis totus est in affectu, ne sit nimium praeceps, expedit ut sapientia et discretione regatur. Praecipimur ergo Deum tota anima, id est, sapienter diligere. Anima enim sedes est sapientiae. Diligebat Petrus Dominum dulciter quidem, sed non prudenter, quia carnaliter: amor enim cordis ad carnalis affectus proprietates accedit. Ideoque ipsum mori prohibebat, quoniam non sapienter sed dulciter, non discrete sed temere diligebat. Quia etiam discipuli dulciter quidem, sed imprudenter amabant, dictum est eis : Si diligeretis me, gauderetis utique, quia vado ad Patrem, quia Pater major me est. Ac si diceret: si diligeretis me prudenter, desiderabilis esset vobis ascensus meus ad Patrem, qui naturam humanitatis vestrae mecum defero in Patris gloria collocandam. Petrus Blenensis, De Caritate Dei Et Promixi, Cap. XXVII  Source:  Migne PL 207.926d-927a

But because the love of the heart is all affection, lest it be too precipitate, it is expedient that wisdom and discretion rule it. We are thus commanded to love God with all the soul, that is, wisely. For the soul is the seat of wisdom. Peter loved the Lord greatly, but not prudently, since it was according to the flesh; for the love of the heart is properly a thing that inclines to things according to the flesh. Therefore He prohibited him to die, because he loved greatly but not wisely, not prudently but recklessly. 1 And because the disciples loved greatly and yet imprudently, He said to them, 'If you loved me, you would rejoice that I go to the Father, because the Father is greater than me.' 2 This is as if He had said, 'If you loved me wisely, my ascent to the Father would be pleasing to you, for the nature of your humanity I carry off to gather to the glory of the Father.' Peter of Blois, On Love Of God and One's Neighbour, Chap 27 1 Jn 13.36-38 2 Jn 14.28