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You’re
nuts. Who would ever want to do something this foolish?
 ou know, that’s exactly what
Christ’s disciples said to Him at Capernaum. Come to think of it,
that’s also what they said in Corinth to Saint Paul. Odd, isn’t
it?
The material on this website
isn’t some collection of irrational and bitter demands I have concocted
on my own; instead it’s the surest and most simple way to overcome the
psychological despair and emptiness
that afflicts humanity. It summarizes a profound
psychoanalytic understanding of the
unconscious as
well as the timeless wisdom of the
Catholic mystics through the ages, a wisdom that tells us to
detach ourselves from all in
this world that would lead us to spiritual
destruction and then to throw ourselves into the
healing abyss of divine
love.
 But by reason of this secret
and intimate union with God, there remains in the Soul a sweet impression,
so firm and assured a satisfaction, that no torture, however cruel, could
overpower it, and a zeal so ardent that a man, had he a thousand lives, would
risk them all for that hidden consciousness which is so strong that hell
itself could not destroy it. |
—Saint Catherine
of Genoa
Spiritual Dialogue, Part III, Chapter X |
When you have found a sweet
love like this, how can the bitterness of
depression and anxiety threaten it when even the
gates of hell cannot prevail against
it?
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