The almost invisible inner experience

When we move and proceed in the dimension, the style, everything, of our spiritual paths, we can feel deeply, covertly, intimately, delicately, an experience that is not exactly the kind of love or personal presence we can experience with humans, but has a resemblance and is related to it. It is spirituality that is delicately, secretly, in the darkness of the secret of the hidden and vulnerable feeling, even an experience in our heart, although in the midst of all its admitted limits and its exposition to criticism. We should not forget that the essence of the intimate spiritual experience lies behind the coarseness of materiality. Our temptation to concentrate on the search for specific resources, activities, sources, nourishments, rituals, is counterproductive: we can search for them, but what matters most is the internal organization of the spiritual experience, of the word-search game, that lies behind the materialities.
“You shall not make for yourself an image” not so much because God is invisible, but because the experience to which we should cling to is the innner one.
In this context no totem, no heirloom, necklace, medal, pendant, will ever be able to give us the presence of spirituality. Material things can be used, but only to refer, to continuously point towards interiority.
Our cultivation of attention to this inner, experience, that is permanently at risk of being reduced to invisibility, can counterbalance our experiences of oppression that the world imposes on us and can orient our daily life.
The value of our walking and growing, as well as the vattimian stepping back, lies in the direction towards our inner experience.