Above all love
A hidden inheritance
- of Francesco Arista and Antonella Molica
Argument
- → If I am benign and omnipotent, and I allow it, the malignity of the world implies your superiority to it, your divinity.
- → If I, God, love you and allow you to face such a difficulty, my correctness implies that you are immense, divine, similar to me.
- → 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 truth is eternal, unlimited, your essence, your root, your nature and your destiny.
- → If you turn away from the truth you lose yourself, you forget who you are and you suffer.
- → The strength of the world proclaims temporariness, tends to distance you from the truth, to chain you to its conditioning, to make you suffer.
- → The illusion of the world generates a great but temporary pain, it has no power over the eternal truth, over your essence.
- → If you want you can oppose the world and return to the truth, and in this act you find yourself and a deep understanding for others.
Recurrences in the text
- → 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.
- → The unconscious experience of the world deludes and weighs down your nature.
- → A time of recollection and solitude strengthens the mind and detaches you from the dust of nothingness.
- → The strength of the world proclaims temporariness, tends to distance you from the truth, to chain you to its conditioning, to make you suffer.
- → The worst trap in your path is considering yourself different and colliding with others to boost your ego.
- → Men differ temporarily in what they know, they do not differ in who they are.
- → If everything were temporary, silence would be too, therefore absolute silence is absurd, contradictory, unthinkable, impracticable.
- → 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.
- → 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.
- → The world is by nature a labyrinth, it does not contain its own solution.
- → A commitment sufficient in duration and intensity can recognize one's need for certainty and truth.
Relative arguments