For love God and the world are opposed, you love one of the two and neglect the other.
Above all love
A hidden inheritance
- of Francesco Arista and Antonella Molica
Argument
Recurrences in the text
- → To love me is to choose me in your conscience, to know me very close, always accessible.
- → Every way of representing me has a certain value, but remember that I am inside you at the highest level of intimacy.
- → I am always with you, and knowing this is a great good for you, but this continuity is not bound by what you experience.
- → I am much closer and more intimate to you than your sensations, which are signs, of your body, a shell, of much of what you thought you were, that is, an external construction mediated with the world.
- → In the inevitable and unpleasant experience of uncertainty, of temporariness, of contradiction, you can conceive a state of greater fullness as a lack or necessity.
- → Sooner or later, in his time, every man sees the illusion of the world.
- → For a few moments don't let your mind or your attention wander on what is worth little, and turn to me with love.
- → The rule of love is the best, it doesn't judge and doesn't blame.
- → Ignorance, pain, selfishness and death are not for you, they are not compatible with your true nature.
- → Only the certainty of eternal truth and his bond to it can enable man to overcome the burden of the world.
- → Love is not content with uniqueness, it requires the other to love, it prevails over uniqueness and generates the other.
- → Many signs, including one's deepest aspirations, pain and revelation, help man to recognize the truth.
- → For love God and the world are opposed, you love one of the two and neglect the other.
- → The strength of the world proclaims temporariness, tends to distance you from the truth, to chain you to its conditioning, to make you suffer.
- → If everything were temporary, silence would be too, therefore absolute silence is absurd, contradictory, unthinkable, impracticable.
- → Love is the sign of the realization of coherence and of the individual.
- → Strengthening the mind with concentration without adjusting its goals leads to more pain, but opens up the possibility of a later turn towards higher goals.
Relative arguments