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 see what the world is like for me, you'll have a good laugh.
- → Because of your coming from a state of unconsciousness you may tend to forget me, to get caught up in other thoughts, but every time you think of me it is an act of love.
- → The greater your love, the more you resemble me and realize you.
- → Please remember me, don't let the world take you, for your own good.
- → The unconscious needs rules, but whoever is close to the truth easily finds the appropriate act.
- → The ambiguity of the world destroys what belongs to it and highlights the futility of choosing it.
- → The world does not love, and therefore deceives, destroys and annihilates itself.
- → Many signs, including one's deepest aspirations, pain and revelation, help man to recognize the truth.
- → 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 unconscious experience of the world deludes and weighs down your nature.
- → 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.
- → 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.
- → I am the infinite thinking spirit, the root, the fullness and the deepest reality of being.
Relative arguments