active vs interior life

Active life has a threefold defect: sollicita es8 (thou art careful), it is worried with mental problems, sollicitudines in cogitatu; turbaris (thou art troubled), and here are the troubles that stir up the passions, turbationes in affectu; finally, erga plurima (about many things), occupations are multiplied, and so our energy and our action is divided: divisiones in actu. But for the interior life one thing alone is necessary: union with God. Porro unum est necessarium. All the rest can only be secondary, something accomplished solely by virtue of this union and in order to strengthen it more and more.

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