Many times you hear you have to return to inner life. But, what is actually inner life?
Also you are told evil in man consists in a continuous outward switch; and if you looked for within, you would find solution to all your problems.
Man continuously dreams and does not get almost anything. The Son casts his divine dreams.
Exercises of prayer are human techniques to get a divine result.
It is quite suitable to rationalize methods of meditation, but one has to be careful not to rationalize the very prayer.
When the Blessed Buddha began to assemble his sons to teach them the extraordinary truth that all is renunciation and nothing is lasting in the world, his first action was not to comment that everything perishes and finishes, but to send them to a cemetery.
As one says we are bound to detach from the world in order to live or to start the spiritual life apparently we are establishing a barrier between a way of living and other, but in fact it is not so: we are building new cages instead of breaking barriers.
Exercises of meditation must be known properly by the Son.
First, he must be internally ready to pray; otherwise he shall acquire this predisposition by overcoming himself and persevering in his exercises.
A Son has to know first the exercise of meditation comprehensively. He must make of the technique, a comprehensive, rational technique.
First it is necessary to discern and charge the persuasive word with comprehensive power.
Spiritual life does not consist in sublimating feelings. So, those Sons who in meditation only are looking for higher sensibility do not go beyond certain limit and never can check their emotions.
When the Son is about to meditate, he starts repeating the relative formula, and continues later with a more or less uniform invocation, in which it is only the subject that changes.
Sensations are a direct effect of the imaginative picture. Not always it is possible to get intense emotions, and this is not the purpose of the exercise, but one must aim at an emotional-mental state that is gradually purer and higher.
Generally one notices a cut in the exercise when we reach the purposes. Sensibility is increasing its tone until its culmination as a unique emotion, but when one should make the will to continue in certain direction, we lose easily the state of meditation.