The Lack Of Anxiety And Love

True contemplation by its very nature can never produce anxiety, it never creates or fosters any basis for mental illness or anti-social behaviour, it justifies no personality disorder. Any division of the psyche by definition cannot arise from self-emptying.

Absolute emptiness is the place where the presence of God is revealed. In this there is nothing that is able to impede our ability to receive and to give love and experience the joy of God’s presence.

As long as our eyes are not on oursleves then God works in us. When we become conscious of our self - our wants and desires (even to do God's will) - then the presence of God withdraws and we become aware of our betrayal and our anxiety increases. If neurosis is being out of touch with reality, then becoming conscious of our self, even in our best intentions of wanting to do things for or on behalf of God, betrays that our trust is not in God, but in ourself. The Gospel message is that love is found in the grace of God alone and has no part in human ingenuity, or willfulness, or actions.

Neurosis does not accept this and fosters anxiety. Neurosis cannot accept reality as it is and withdraws into itself and if it is open to perceiving anything at all, then it only sees certain aspects of reality, it sees only the aspects of reality that it has the tolerance to see, and it is because of this that which it calls love is not love.