For love God and the world are opposed, you love one of the two and neglect the other.

For love God and the world are opposed, you love one of the two and neglect the other.

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Above all love
A hidden inheritance

of Francesco Arista and Antonella Molica

Argument

the beauty

→ If you want to notice it, you have to think about it voluntarily, with love.

→ This world offers man the possibility of making the opposite choice to God, of denying, rejecting God and experiencing its consequences.

→ Ignoring the difference between temporary and eternal is the cause of pain.

→ The nature of experience is ambiguous if it does not refer to what surpasses it.

→ Those who know love do not confuse it with the desire to command.

→ The world is ruthless, and every ruthless spirituality does not know me well and does not testify me.

→ Your search in the world has ended and now you know who I am, who you are and what the world is.
→ The world is empty, uncertain, unreal, it's not your homeland, it has only a brief deceptive experience in common with you.
→ Let the world go its own way, towards nothingness, according to its destiny, not to waste time and energy in trying to conquer it, possess it, save it or enjoy it more than much.
→ Play with the world if you want, but don't you stick to it and don't serve it.
→ I am everything and you are mine, worthy of my love and my presence.

→ I am always with you, and knowing this is a great good for you, but this continuity is not bound by what you experience.

→ 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.

→ If you don't have the strength to seek and see what's always true, you can't have meaningful relationships.

Recurrences in the text

→ If you want to notice it, you have to think about it voluntarily, with love.
→ This world offers man the possibility of making the opposite choice to God, of denying, rejecting God and experiencing its consequences.
→ Ignoring the difference between temporary and eternal is the cause of pain.
→ The nature of experience is ambiguous if it does not refer to what surpasses it.
→ Those who know love do not confuse it with the desire to command.
→ The world is ruthless, and every ruthless spirituality does not know me well and does not testify me.
→ The world is empty, uncertain, unreal, it's not your homeland, it has only a brief deceptive experience in common with you.
→ I am always with you, and knowing this is a great good for you, but this continuity is not bound by what you experience.
→ 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.
→ If you don't have the strength to seek and see what's always true, you can't have meaningful relationships.

Relative arguments