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worldly love

"Let us consider what worldly love does in the person who is deeply caught up in it, as with the love of money, the love of rank or honors, or the love of base carnality. It is clear that a person languishes from its first out of a desire to have that which she foolishly loves. Then a person invests in this pursuit all her thought, her desire, and understanding, so that there is no other thing about which she can think, insofar as she forgets and loses all sense of shame. There is nothing that can hold her back, no task, no form of travail or danger, not even death, nor the counsel of friends, nor the fear of God or of his judgments. Whether she sleeps or dreams or is awake, this person cares to talk or hear of nothing else, to the point that she loses her grasp on reason and becomes like someone who is mad or drunk or out of her senses. There is nothing she will hesitate or refuse to do in order to get that object with which worldly love inflames and wounds her. She forgets all about virtues and the future life, so much so that if she happens to hear talk of hell, paradise, or death, all seems to her a dream or fable. She will not dwell on such spiritual thoughts, for worldly love will soon lead her astray" Jean Gerson 'The Mountain Of Contemplation'

4:49 p.m. - 2022-05-05

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