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
- → This is awareness.
- → Don't worry, let the unpleasant world fade away.
- → The divine nature is already present in man even before his awareness.
- → The unconscious man does not know who he is, he has no idea of the gift he possesses.
- → I definitely love you.
- → Do not be afraid, the world can not do anything to you.
- → Trust me, even when you don't understand right away.
- → The depth of darkness, which now envelops you in the world, exalts and highlights by contrast the splendour of our love.
- → Remember that you are not your body, identify yourself spiritually.
- → I am much closer and more intimate to you than your sensations, which are signs, of your body, a shell, of much of what you thought you were, that is, an external construction mediated with the world.
- → Only the certainty of eternal truth and his bond to it can enable man to overcome the burden of the world.
- → The announcement, the revelation, the need to know and love tell man to direct his choice towards me.
- → 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.
- → For love God and the world are opposed, you love one of the two and neglect the other.
- → 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.
Relative arguments