“If we live thus, following the example of the Mother of God as regards her humility, her virginal purity, her inconspicuousness, and her mystical stillness and silence; if we can share in the mystery and state of giving birth to God within us, that is, of being as far as possible untouched by nature, that is, unaffected by our subjugation to it; and if we can participate permanently in grace, then we’ll be able, even in this world, to experience our mystic union with God. We’ll attain the state of communion with God, that is, deification.”
(Metropolitan Nikolaos (Hatzinikolaou) in pemptousia.org)