St. Maximus the Confessor - The deified state of man

To describe the deified state of man, St. Maximus turns to Pauline texts : " The admirable Paul denied his own existence and did not know whether he possesed a life of his own :I live no more, for Christ lives in me...( Gal.2.20)...( Man), the image of God, becomes God by deification; he rejoices to the full in abandoning all that is his by nature... because the grace of the Spirit triumphs in him and because manifestly God alone is acting in him; thus God and those worthy of God possess in all things one and the same energy, or rather, this common energy is the energy of God alone, since he communicates himself wholly to those who are wholly worthy."