I found the last St. Maximus passage especially challenging, which is why I didn’t try to put it in my own words. Thankfully I got some help at Energetic Procession in how to view this passage in light of the Saint’s activity or passivity in the eschaton. I’ll post JKC’s comment,

“I think the quote you gave can be understood by other writing found in On the Cosmic Mystery Of Jesus Christ. I don’t have enough time to quote much of anything, but I will give you some pages for what I believe he is not saying in that quote.

Actions proper to our nature are not taken away

Page 91 Deification is not a change in nature, but an innovation which changes the mode and domain of action proper to the nature.

We don’t lose the power of self-determination

Page 92-93 (Ambiguum 42) Basically the power of self-movement and self-determination are inherent in human nature.

We don’t lose the ability to exercise free will

Page 52 (Ambiguum 7) That which is in our power, our free will, will freely surrender to God and in doing so we will have mastery over wills. We freely displace, or we voluntarily, through self determination, hand over our self determination

On page 52 there is another quote of Maximus in note 19: “I do not do away with the natural activity of those who undergo this experience, as though it’s natural activity had ceased…”

We are not inactive

Page 126 (Ad, Thalassium 60) There is authentic knowledge gained by active engagement through experiential perception.

What I do think he is basically saying is that we will be just like Christ when he said not my will, but your will (P. 52) I think it gets difficult to visualize the concepts that Maximus explains, but I believe we can look to Jesus’ actions and see what Maximus is saying in concrete form. Jesus was not standing in a field somewhere unable to move because he was unable to take his eyes off some great big ball of light. That’s the mental picture I get of the eschaton when I read Maximus.”