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
- → When you practice conscious contact with me, you can see the enormous force that tries to distract you and subdue you.
- → The ambiguity of the world destroys what belongs to it and highlights the futility of choosing it.
- → There is always light beyond the darkness, but the eyes of the body do not see the eternal light.
- → For love God and the world are opposed, you love one of the two and neglect the other.
- → 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.
- → Your being, what you are, is not defined or influenced by the world, by events.
- → Your dignity, your nature is divine, it does not change.
- → A mind focused on internal goals of the world is a slave to the world and chains to the world.
- → 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