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
- → I love you.
- → Pain is part of the body and the world, not of eternity.
- → Do not believe the judgments of the world or those who identify with the world.
- → The nature of experience is ambiguous if it does not refer to what surpasses it.
- → The human experience of pain is objectively inevitable in life in the world, because in it man must born, fall ill and die.
- → In the inevitable and unpleasant experience of uncertainty, of temporariness, of contradiction, you can conceive a state of greater fullness as a lack or necessity.
- → The world strongly projects its materialistic illusion, but it is destined to show its inconsistency.
- → Sooner or later, in his time, every man sees the illusion of the world.
- → The truth cannot be defeated, for I am the almighty, the eternal, and I love you as my neighbor, son, similar to me, as myself.
- → 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.
- → What is invisible and mysterious to the senses can be understood by reason.
Relative arguments