It is well to submit to the attention of the readers a phenomenon that many have experimented in the course of their life, but that it is often overlooked, not because it is irrelevant but maybe because it is considered too bound to particular circumstances and, therefore, beyond the control of our own will. We are talking about the phenomenon of the interior transformations, which produce irreversible changes in our interiority. When they take place, not very frequently to tell the truth, they lead us to a more definite consciousness of values almost ignored before, in which we recognize ourselves with great certainty. Transformations simply occur. They don't seem to depend directly on our intentions. Even if one was perfectly convinced of the truth of his reasonings, they cannot produce, by themselves, transformations inside us. It is evident to everyone the huge difference between the force of persuasion of a reasoning and the force that comes, instead, from an irreversible transformation. In spite of what may seem, it should be clear, instead, to everybody that transformations do not occur accidentally, but they follow a well definite logic that can be understood by means of a rigorous interior work. |
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