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
- → The greater your love, the more you resemble me and realize you.
- → The unconscious needs rules, but whoever is close to the truth easily finds the appropriate act.
- → In relation to man, the world puts love and knowledge to the test, it hides the truth with an incomprehensible deception from within, from those who consider themselves part of it, it must be examined as a whole, in its general characteristics, from the outside and with detachment.
- → I'm your father and I take care of you, son.
- → I know that it is not easy to be aware in this world, that the matter in which you now find yourself is bound by conditionings that you can now only partially regulate, you cannot exclude.
- → Once the level of spiritual pain has been overcome, the path is resolved in an inner simplification.
- → There is always light beyond the darkness, but the eyes of the body do not see the eternal light.
- → 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.
- → 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.
- → 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.
- → 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.
- → What you now live in the perishable dimension, subjected to temporariness, is a brief and intense negative experience, which invites you to recognize and desire the gift for which I have destined you.
Relative arguments