In The Depths Of The Abysses Other Abysses Open
All you feel about life and people is the idea you have of the hidden will of God.
Marius was in love with Cosette, but she did not understand who this Jean Valjean was who accompanied her everywhere as a protective father. He knew nothing about the past of Jean Valjean, who was a tall and imposing man compared to the wonderful and sensitive little girl he loved to see again in the park. How to approach it, if there is this mountain of man between the two of them? What is such a monster looking for, with a wry and frowning face, scars left by the storm of life, next to such a cute and innocent angel?
Finally, one last question, but no answer. Marius felt like a pair of pliers. How could Jean Valjean’s life have been so close to Coseta’s? What does this incomprehensible game of fate, which had put this child together with such a man, mean? Then, are there chains for two made in heaven? Does God like to mate the angel with the demon? Can crime and innocence, then, be companions in the secret pit of misery? In this endeavor of the condemned (this being human destiny), can two foreheads pass side by side, one ignorant, the other frightened, the one bathed in the divine light of dawn, the other withered forever by the gleam of eternal lightning?
Who could decide such a misunderstanding? In what way was it possible for this angel to live with this old man? Who could have tied the lamb to the wolf and, more incomprehensibly, the wolf to the lamb? Because the wolf loved the lamb, because the wild creature worshiped the weak creature, because for nine years the angel had leaned against the monster. Coseta’s childhood and adolescence, her birth, her virgin upbringing to life and the sun, had been protected by a devout devotion. Here the questions unfolded in thousands of other misunderstood questions. In the depths of the abysses other abysses opened, and Marius could no longer lean on Jean Valjean without dizziness. Who was this man? An abyss?
Leadership: Are you able to fit into contexts dominated by secondary aspects of life, without accepting a “circumstantial” limitation from a reality that is shown in different appearances?
Everything we experience in different moments of life, especially in those contexts that we are willing to accept a limitation of our own capacities for social integration, is part of us. And through any kind of image we create of ourselves, whether good or bad, we share the intention with which we formed that image.
Images do not stay long in our decision-making sphere, but are transferred to the outside world to the surprise of an entire world. Here, God has the last word, and what we see in ourselves is what we need to feel (as acutely as possible) to fight for change. In fact, God never lets things go about their way in peace.
None of the images we see in ourselves are neutral, no feeling is merely circumstantial, but pre-set by God in our being, not to rebel against HIM, but just to gain that shred of wisdom that books can’t give us. But can we gain that self-confidence that we want when we have a bad image of ourselves? Perhaps it is very true what someone said on the web: “Not getting caught up in the drama of disappointment means being open to seeing beyond appearances, gaining that flexibility in relation to life.”
And even if behind every image there is an intention, a fundamental form of guilt that encompasses all the spiritual capacity of the individual, as it is religiously speaking, there is still a spirit that will try to enliven you. I do not refer in particular to a ghost as a ghost who deals with the deception of man, manifesting itself in various noises, smells, movements of objects and so on. Rather I am referring to a concentration of energy that directs your soul and mind in the direction of a more sustainable way of life, and it all starts with choosing alternatives: to believe in what is eternal within you, to believe in what you cannot yet see, or to believe in what does not exist.
Leadership: Can you look confidently into the future in terms of that self-image that life shapes for you by experiencing affective-emotional and actional experiences, guided by the meaning of a vision centered on God’s will?
God is an image or likeness of something perceived, but not physically existing in the active environment. And Jean Valjean seemed just the opposite, a well-known stranger physically, but just as imposing as the Devil. And Marius, it is easy to understand why he was so distrustful, because he seemed more to delve into a stranger whom no one had the courage to approach, a stranger who brought him a lot of moods and question marks. Or this stranger was not powered by any engine of the desire for adventure, but by a high voltage battery that is charged from the holy source of life, called: ambiguity.
There exists a spirit in which the image of good was created, depicting man in that angelic position, and all the images we face are loaded with that spirit. But who decides the image in which a spirit is integrated? You finally receive in your being the spirit in which an image was created, even if the spirit does not give you order, but it does not give you the power not to lose hope that one day you will arrive wherever you want, and then you can understand everything.
Even behind the image that man creates, which we always see in our own mirror, there is an intention, because behind the image there is a person who speaks through inspired feelings.
However, it matters a lot what we look at in terms of the self-image that life shapes for us by having affective-emotional and actional experiences, because when we look at something the reality of that image is imprinted on us. We could say that the intention behind the image is soaked in us. I believe that the image itself has this function of language, because it conveys to you a certain teaching about people, or an essential conclusion about faith: “All you feel about life and people is the idea you form about the hidden will of God.”
Before using augmented reality in leadership, you will often feel placed in front of that image of vulnerability that becomes the image of God by way of man being able to have many faces, good or bad, depending on the meaning you give to life, but also to self-image.
In The Depths Of Abysses Other Abysses Open, if you understand that in every chapter of life the vague message of God is interposed, and that in spite of all the appearances of life you must keep your peace of mind. Remember that all you feel about life and people is the idea you form about God’s hidden will.
* Note: Victor Hugo, The Miserables , State Publishing House for Literature and Art, 1964.
