Inner vs Outer Awareness

 Bernadette Robert

Reading the lives of saints and mystics may have its place in our lives -- though it would be better if we had never read them -- but a million times more important is our awareness of every interior movement and change, even the most subtle, because this is where it is at, this is where the spirit is continually moving us, transforming and informing us in its own particular way. This is where we will learn everything we ever need to know, and to do this, we must clear our minds of everything else. When we come to believe that the unitive state is only as saints and others have lived and described it, then we have blinded ourselves to its subjective reality and settled down to a world of make-believe. 

The Path to No-Self

[The major point of this quote is this: "...a million times more important is our awareness of every interior movement and change, even the most subtle, because this is where it is at, this is where the spirit is continually moving us, transforming and informing us in its own particular way." This is the "one-pointedness" which the Beatitudes call the "pure of heart who shall see God". That's how I see it, anyway.]

[Bracketed words, mine.]