- The doing of the Lord’s love radiates out of our heart and expresses itself in use
- Divine love is enfolded within the Word and manifests as Divine Truth which is the Lord in His Divine Human
- Self love is always present. The Lord’s gift to us is a sense of self and it can bring a sense of joy or a sense of wanting
- The proprium pulls us into the business of the natural and the cares of the world with its distractions diverting our attention away from internal work
- It can be painful to allow inner work and reflection to occur
- Sometimes it can be hard to hear the Word speaking to us, we have to return to it many times to hear what it is saying to us
- The literal sense, with all its names of people and places, pulls us away from hearing the Word’s internal message
- The Word demonstrates our inner processes. It’s generally about spiritual principles but it can also be very specific to us individually
- The hellish proprium needs to die in order for us to experience a new sense of self in which heaven is present
- Each death of the hellish proprium is accompanied by the birth of the Word in us
- We can experience the merit-guilt cycle when we examine our motivations with a view to trying to change our self from our self
- When we just allow the Lord to work through us from the heart it seems so simple
- It can be discouraging when we can’t hear the Lord speaking to us
- Our affection or love is ignited when we feel or see a new truth from the Word
- The Lord is constantly bringing about the conjunction of the internal and external through the good and truth within our own minds – this is the first conjugial that needs to occur within us – this is the Church within us
- The internal sense is not a knowledge of correspondence but it is instead the life of the Word unfolding within our mind
- Sometimes spiritual things are impossible to put into words
- It is through hearing the experience of others in the group that makes the Lord in His Divine Human visible
- We can’t change our motivations, we can only give attention to shunning the evils that we are given to see
- What we feel as a desire for order can mask the proprium’s need to control others
- When we focus on being an instrument of the Divine it can have the effect of reducing states of anxiety
- Letting go of outcomes and leaving things to the Lord produces a positive sphere by bringing a sense of peace into our life
- An affection for interior truth just doesn’t just happen, we have to engage with the Text if we are to find a place (Bethlehem) where the Lord can be born within
- Evil arises when we attribute what is Divine to our self
Today, this one speaks to me: The internal sense is not a knowledge of correspondence but it is instead the life of the Word unfolding within our mind
and this sums up my whole session!