Course III - Teaching 12: To Love in Silence

In these times of confusion and uncertainty it is difficult to maintain an inner balance to allow a clear, impartial and passionless vision of things, life and oneself. So every effort should lead to be centered on oneself, to have a clear self-vision and to become conscious within. One has to explore the soul within and to be continuously and steadily controlled to acquire a deep consciousness and to feel the Renunciation message.
Man calls love to a fleeting feeling that quickly falls away because of time and changes; by the same word he names at the same time his eagerness for freedom and his inner, spiritual plenitude. All becomes the same thing, all is mistaken, illusion ever contains contradictory feelings and at the end of love one never finds that which one imagined to attain.
The individual should be aware of his own inner strength, to concentrate it on himself, converting it into a pure and simple act of love, offering, surrender and Renunciation to the Divine Mother.
The soul must die of a continuous surrender of love so that the human love is totally consumed and transformed into the most pure flame of Eternal and Divine Love.
Only Renunciation transforms natural love into supernatural love. You do not find peace by seeking your own satisfaction and happiness but on that love that gives and nothing expects or desires, where the little heart of man becomes the Heavenly Heart of the Divine Mother.
If we could make distinctions in regard to love, we would say there are two loves: the first, with all its variations, about which we can speak and give explanations; the second that one lives in silence, in the inner mystery of the soul.
The first is not only human love but also human love tending to become divine: all that fervent aspiration of the intellect and heart that seeks its own elevation, purification and sublimation, and that sometimes one feels like almost irresistible impulses full of plenitude, eagerness for surrender, and offering.
They are ever characterized by the intense experience that they arouse; they are great emotional and sensible movements. Sometimes this may occur during the exercise of meditation or at any moment, when one talks to a soul, before a beautiful painting or before a sentence in a book.
But there is another love without so many sensible signs; it is a state of love whose nature is inexpressible but leads constantly inwards to the silence of the heart.
It is something that you would not want to touch, but to leave it there, in the secret tabernacle of the soul; it does not drags like a burning sudden blaze, but does not go out either: it is always there like an infuse certainty like that of a child who, safe in the bosom of his mother, does not think or feel; he only knows that he is there and does not want to go from there.
By this touch in the heart, the Divine Mother leads the soul to the true inner life, to that life that does not waste words or sensations, but establishes being in his divine center and becomes a constantly full and total spiritual consciousness.
So during prayer and especially during meditation you should not seek certain sensible state but you have to go inwards with very simple words and thoughts, constantly inwards and more deeply, to the unfathomable silence of the heart to listen there to the voice of the Divine Mother that speaks in silence.