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
- → If you recognize and contrast the nature of the world, you can understand who you are.
- → A strong attachment to what belongs to the world is failure, because man cannot possess what belongs to the world.
- → The ambiguity of the world destroys what belongs to it and highlights the futility of choosing it.
- → Once the level of spiritual pain has been overcome, the path is resolved in an inner simplification.
- → For love God and the world are opposed, you love one of the two and neglect the other.
- → Men differ temporarily in what they know, they do not differ in who they are.
- → 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.
- → I am the infinite thinking spirit, the root, the fullness and the deepest reality of being.
- → The world is by nature a labyrinth, it does not contain its own solution.
- → I am the truth and I invite you to come to me, because I know who you are and I don't lie.
Relative arguments