of any individual,
group or community
unless we are able
to see and admit
our own inadequacy
and past failures.
Once we begin to see,
to experience and to
admit our weakness,
then we can begin to
appreciate the fundamental
principle of the spiritual life,
that we cannot go a single
step forward without God.
self that vanishesis our false self.It is the selfwe thoughtourselves to bethat vanishes.Our false selfis thus extinguishedin this realization.Our social,psychological,emotional selfis given a newfreedom andwe become capableof placing ourobservable selfin its properrelationship to God.
in the contemplationand love of the highest Truth.All men and women of all culturesare born with an instinctivedesire to know the Truthand an instinctive desirefor the supreme happinesswhich is the vision of God in heaven.
consciousness is stillavailable to modern man.It starts not fromthe thinking and self-awaresubject but from Being.It is ontologically seento be beyondand prior to thesubject-object division.
found in theencounter with Christ,who is the mostcomplete answerto the questionthat affects everyhuman life.Following Christis the foundationof universal morality.
that ‘without anydispute, the lesseris blessed bythe greater’, forMelchizedekblessed Abrahamand not theother way around.(Cfr. Hebrews 7: 12of the New testament)
by participatingin and being partof something greaterthan ourselvesand our projects,playing our partas active membersof the creative universe.
