BEING IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN DOING

 

 

The main aim of the spiritual missionary must be not in the results of his external and visible activity, but in the invisible reality of his inner sanctity. Being is more important than doing. Far more numerous are the amount of men who put greater emphasis on external activities than in internal attitude; hardly realizing that the internal attitude is far more important.

 

Social activity has no autonomous value in itself, if it does not arises from the mystical attitude of man.

 

Does not really matters what man does or says - what really matters is what man is. All his doings can be good and praiseworthy, but if they are not the natural and spontaneous manifestation of his inner attitude, they are worthless... they are like many zeros, whose sum or multiplication will always be equal to zero!

 

There are on the external activities, when dissociated from the inner reality, two very serious dangers:

 

1) - These activities gives to the author a false sense of security, creating in him a self-sufficiency over the collected results, preventing him from going beyond what he has already achieved, or thinks he has achieved. This delusion and self sufficiency are the greatest spiritual disaster for man externally active and internally passive, because will direct him to enter into a spiritual stagnation zone. Woe to man fully satisfied with his external works! The only factor that can prelude his redemption is a deep dissatisfaction with himself. Incomparably more important than the glorious doings on the horizontal level is the intensification of his vertical being. Is worthless the act of doing, saying or having in the world of quantitative objects, if in the world of qualitative subject there not exists a deeper self.

 

2) - The second danger is that this externalized man judges his influence on others on what he does and says - when it is impossible to promote the true conversion of another person, if I am not a genuine and authentic converted, i.e., a man intimately united to God. It is only my being that can influence the being of others, but if my being is weak, I cannot give strength to the weak. Only the powerful positive can act on the negative of others; if I am not 100% positive, by an intense and profound experience of God, I cannot exert real influence over others, equally negative. Can my listeners or readers admire and applaud me; but they did not feel strong enough to leave the nocturnal world of their moral miseries to enter into the world of daytime virtue and holiness, because they do not see that world crystalized in me. And even in the best case that they thought that the divine world is realized on me, they do not would convert to God, because there are not the appearances which work, but the reality, a reality that, in this case, would be absent from me. I can say with great eloquence that the spirit world is grand and beautiful, and my listeners or readers, at best, will believe in my words - but from believing to being there is a huge distance. Believing is a distant and vague theory - being is a close and strong reality. It is very difficult the transition from believing to being, and if anyone see this crystalized being in a human person, will not become converted because they do not see in myself, my conversion.

 

The converted is one who can truly say: "The Father and I are one..., no longer I who live but Christ is living in me."

 

My words of one not converted, may give light to listeners or readers; but will lack of strength, which comes not from words, but from the spiritual reality of the human individual, in which the "Word" was made ​​flesh and dwells substantially "full of grace and truth."

 

There is something infinitely more important than any external work - is the man himself, his full realization in Christ, for which those works are like means to an end. External activities should never be anything else but a spontaneous overflow of an inner fullness. If this fullness does not exist - nothing can overflow! It is like some emptiness camouflaged in fullness, i.e., a great lie presented as being true?... A fire in a painting does not provide light or heat - while a smaller portion of real fire can ignite fires and illuminate entire worlds.

 

Does not really matters what man says, does or has - what matters is what he is. What he is refers to the quality of his intimate SELF - what he says, does or has, refers to the amounts of his external ego.

 

Does not really matters what man realizes in the external world of objects - what matters is what he accomplishes for himself. A single self-realization overcomes all external realizations.