A Natural Consent

There is a natural consent and an ordinary response to this present and simple reality that is itself faith, without being unnecessarily religious, where we are simply being ourselves. It is reflected in an interior centredness where we do not have to keep making and unmaking our minds, putting together new judgments all over again and again. In fact, there is no judgment at all.

It is the conviction that we have to confront all problems and to resolve them that keeps people immature as if we ourselves were God and for whom life itself were clear cut, social interactions were simple, and there were nothing that we could not categorize and demystify. In any event, it is clearly a sign of immaturity and a lack of identity to focus at all on the manner in which others moralistically define their own lives; this is nothing more than a distraction. Nothing could be further from Christian contemplation.