No Sentimentality

By Antonio Cottas

Thoughts and feelings have a preponderant role in the spiritual evolution of humanity. It is by means of their set of moral qualities that people reveal the degree of spirituality that they have.

Thoughts and feelings should be controlled by the spiritually enlightened person. Therefore, he cannot get carried away by sentimentality. The balance of emotions depends on control, and the uncontrolled individual does not reason and cannot have attitudes that lead him to spiritual progress.

One who studies Christian Rationalism learns to control oneself, becomes a person capable of one’s own actions and not a puppet of forces that induce sentimentality, which leads nowhere. This world offers many opportunities for learning self-control, because maintaining stable psychic balance is fundamental in the development of spiritual attributes and faculties. Everybody lives, but living wisely requires spiritual enlightenment.

People who live in total uncontrollability of thoughts and feelings can never attain in this world of schooling the goals outlined in their respective worlds of spiritual stages. They lead uncontrolled lives, however, life must be conducted rationally, with actions resulting from stable psychic balance. Since Earth is a world made not only of pleasures and blessings, but also of setbacks and losses, individuals show their real value precisely by overcoming adversities with lucid reasoning and strong will.

Christian Rationalism teaches what people need to learn in order to lead their lives and overcome the crises that happen to them, because they begin to walk in the path of spirituality safely by acting with the light of reason that strengthening and spiritual enlightenment provides.