Absolute (the), god

Ask for him and you will receive all the rest

January 2nd 2025
Seek the Absolute. Seek that which you can never obtain or achieve, for thanks to this pursuit you will receive something more each day. Of course, you will never obtain everything, but by concentrating on one goal, however inaccessible, in your efforts to achieve it, you will be obliged to follow a certain path, to pass through certain regions, and this is what counts. You are not asking for knowledge, goodness, health or happiness; you are asking for the Absolute, for God. But you will obtain all the rest as well, without having asked for it.
Suppose that you want to obtain knowledge: you shut yourself up in a library where you become pale, thin and bald. Not only will you fail to know everything, but you will be depriving yourself of all the rest: beauty, joy, love and so forth. So that is not the answer. You must say, ‘I don’t want to devote my time and energy trying to obtain this or that, I ask for the inaccessible, the unattainable, for God Himself.’ In this way you will obtain everything else, because to reach God you have to pass by way of light, beauty, health, science, wealth, love, happiness and all the other wonders along the path.*
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