Observe your need, desire and love of truth.
Above all love
A hidden inheritance
- of Francesco Arista and Antonella Molica
Argument
Recurrences in the text
- → 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.
- → Observe your need, desire and love of truth.
- → Love is a voluntary choice and a way of knowing.
- → Orienting, turning, voluntarily directing the mind, knowledge, attention towards God, towards the presence and point of view of God, implies realizing how much you have ignored and neglected God, and recognizing the emptiness of the world.
- → The world seeks to obscure the higher reality of full truth and draws you towards its ever decomposable and temporary emptiness.
- → A time of recollection and solitude strengthens the mind and detaches you from the dust of nothingness.
- → If you don't have the strength to seek and see what's always true, you can't have meaningful relationships.
- → 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.
- → You do not belong to this world, you belong to eternity, you are mine and immortal.
- → Your being, what you are, is not defined or influenced by the world, by events.
Relative arguments