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G: ...this soul, yearning with very great desire, & rising as one intoxicated both by the union which she had had with God, & by what she had heard & tasted of the Supreme & Sweet Truth...the soul passes through these states with tears...concerning the different kinds of tears, & how they came to be, & whence they proceeded, & the fruit that resulted from weeping.
Then she reposes in Me, the Sea Pacific, & her heart is united to Me in love...When she thus feels Me, the Eternal Deity, her eyes let fall tears of sweetness, tears indeed of milk, nourishing the soul in true patience; an odoriferous ointment are these tears, shedding odors of great sweetness.
Oh, best beloved daughter, how glorious is that soul who has indeed been able to pass from the stormy ocean to Me, the Sea Pacific, and in that Sea, which is Myself, the Supreme & Eternal Deity, to fill the pitcher of her heart. And her eye, the conduit of her heart, endeavors to satisfy her heart-pangs, & so sheds tears. This is the last stage in which the soul is blessed and sorrowful. (through adversity & suffering, yet desire to love & to love those that hurt you; suffering is then sublimated into virtue, which creates a spiritual perfume of immense sweetness)
Pure love cannot be returned directly to Me, because I have loved you without being Myself loved, & without any consideration of Myself whatsoever, for I loved you without being loved by you—before you existed; it was, indeed, love that moved Me to create you to My own image & similitude. This love you cannot repay to Me, but you can pay it to My rational creature, loving your neighbor without being loved by him & without consideration of your own advantage, whether spiritual or temporal, but loving him solely for the praise & glory of My Name, because he has been loved by Me. (the power of unconditional love, unrequited love, pure love that asks nothing in return; love not motivated by self-interest)
of the fruit of worldly men’s tears (seeking things externally, superficially, validation or vainglory--shallow things & how these things bring instability to the soul)
G: ... I speak to you of that first class of men; those, who live miserably in the world, making a god of created things & of their own sensuality, from which comes damage to their body & soul. I said to you that every tear proceeded from the heart, & this is the truth, for the heart grieves in proportion to the love it feels. So worldly men weep when their heart feels pain, when they are deprived of something which they loved. But many & diverse are their complainings. Do you know how many? There are as many as there exist different loves. And inasmuch as the root of self-love is corrupt, everything that grows from it is corrupt also. Self-love is a tree on which grow nothing but fruits of death, putrid flowers, stained leaves, branches bowed down, and struck by various winds. This is the tree of the soul.
(in regards to falsehoods, self-righteousness & hateful words especially aimed towards those around you):
G: ...the wretched man wishes to set himself up as the judge of the affections & heart of other rational creatures, when he does not yet know himself...for you have all heard & seen how, through words alone, have come revolutions of states, & destructions of cities, & other evils, a word having entered the heart of the listener, & having passed through a space not large enough for a knife.
Sometimes I allow the world to show them what it is, so that, feeling its diverse & various passions, they may know how little stability it has, & may come to lift their desire beyond it, and seek their native country, which is the Eternal Life (Heaven). (wherefore she that grows in love, grows in grief). While you are pilgrims & wayfarers in this mortal life, [it] cannot be without pain, because the earth, through sin, brought forth thorns.
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