Course XXI - Teaching 3: Texts for Discursive Meditation

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“Non est hic: Resurrexit!”
“Noli me tangere.”
One always requests of God to be alone, because we suffer the weight of companies that affect and impede our inner search. When one is alone, vices and virtues of the soul show up clearly in the consciousness; so, we can direct our efforts to the conquest of spiritual virtues.
In the daily struggle for life, the overwhelming shock of events catches willy-nilly the reluctant soul and makes it to feel entirely forsaken. So, one feels to be fighting alone against the whole world; a fanatic determination pushes to go on ahead in the jungle of a blind society and, finally, being covered by our robe of darkness, we look again for the divine life in our own soul.
Why does God disappear when we need him so dearly, if we are struggling for him?
He is always in us, and we would wish to have sufficient strength to carry Him ahead on the way, as a standard.
If one remains motionless, God appears; if one moves, God disappears. How to go ahead and not to move? In spite of not seeing God, He is always with the souls. One struggles for the soul in permanent rest and God can dwell in the soul.
You should wish that this struggle for life may gradually remove from the soul all those vices that impede a more perfect life. Of course, God is behind this struggle; so we need to go on to fight wildly any opposition in order to be near God. He is on such a place that, when one is able to reach Him, we can touch Him, but however we stretch our hand, we cannot do. Now one understands that we want to live much in order to reach God; we would not wish to die not achieving it. Also one understands why the soul struggles and suffers. Also one understands that God is far away from us, and that this is His best way of loving and helping the soul.