Inward “Communication”

Abstract

Now, in what we just described so briefly, it seems that interior, spiritual life, although fundamentally incarnated in the empirical psyche and nourished by it, nevertheless consists in the unfolding of resources of its own which do not follow the rules of the empirical psyche. The laws of this interior life are not fixed once and for all; they derive from the intimate aspirations of the person, from its specific powers. They also contradict in every way the regulations of our spontaneous, natural reactivities. Consequently, advancement in the interior life closes in the soul on itself. Looking for its own truth, its own and unique destiny, its specific role in the work of creation, the soul leaves the universal current of natural life and of the world. The common experience of human beings neither offers it a landmark nor a criterion for validity. While alone assuming responsibility for its destiny, the soul, cut off from the world, enters into radical solitude.