Mind and Love
Mind and love. How fantasies become reality. One way in which the freedom and creative power of the soul manifests itself is that it can imagine practically anything, whether false or true, reasonable or nonsensical, because nothing and no one prevents the “mind,” which is the level of the soul's ideas, from creating what it then grasps and nourishes with its love, nurtures it, and anchors it within itself as reality. Life would be easier if the soul did not have this freedom and only had reasonable and sensible thoughts, but the challenge for this life is precisely to control its love by rejecting in its heart what is not good and what its mind presents to it as tests, saying: Look at this, try that, or what do you think of this other thing? The heart, which is the will of the soul, must then say no to what is not good in God's order and accept only what is good. In this way, the soul strengthens its will and the person becomes the master of his life. For our desti...