The way to return to God

On the John Cassian Prayer

The end of each monk, that is, the perfection of the heart, tends towards a continuous and uninterrupted perseverance of prayer and, when given to human frailty, it seeks to reach the unalterable tranquility of the soul and perpetual purity.

Wanting Our Lord to confirm this and leave us the example of perfect purity, although he himself is the inviolable source of holiness, he does not need external help in withdrawal and the benefit of solitude. to acquire it (for the fullness of purity could not be stained by the misery of the crowd, nor be contaminated by human coexistence He who purifies and sanctifies all that is defiled, went to the mountain to pray alone (Mt 14,23), thus instructing us with the example of his isolation so that, if we also want to pray to God with a pure and upright heart, we can distance ourselves from him from the agitation and confusion of multitudes.

This is therefore the objective of the solitary, and all his efforts must be concentrated in order to deserve to have, already in this life, the image of future bliss and, in a way, to taste, in his moral body, the pledge of life and the glory of heaven. It is, I mean, the term of all perfection: that the soul is so freed from all carnal weight, that each day rises to spiritual realities, until all its life and all the movement of the heart become a single and continuous prayer.

Therefore, in order to have a continuous remembrance of God, this form of godliness will be offered to you as inseparable: O God, help me, Lord; hurry to help me (Ps 69,2).

This prayer is not linked to the consideration of any image, nor characterized by the accompaniment of a sound or of words, but it manifests itself by a burning tension of the soul, by an ineffable overflow of the heart, by a insatiable enthusiasm of the spirit: torn from all the senses and from all that is material, the soul pours it out with unspeakable groans and sighs towards God.

There are three things that make a dissipated mind stable: vigils, meditation, and prayer. Diligence and continuous application to these exercises give the soul a stable firmness.

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Poetry maintains reason because it floats easily in an endless sea;

reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and thus make it finite.

The result is mental exhaustion, like Mr. Holbein.

To accept everything is an exercise, to understand

everything is a tension. The poet wants only exaltation

and expansion, a world in which he can develop.

The poet just asks to put his head in the sky.

The logical person is the one who tries to put the sky in his head.

And it's the head that breaks.

(Chesterton - Orthodoxy)