Here is the real reason why so very few ever realize a conscious relationship with the Divine: true spiritual union is consummated only through a growing awareness of one’s inner poverty; in acknowledging its actual estate, one’s soul gradually matures into an ever-deepening humility that — since “the beginning” was — and is — created to culminate in an act of Love.

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