Resting in Being
... The habitual dream of ordinary man lives on the past and the future, his heart hangs, as it were, over the past and is carried away by the future at one and the same time, instead of resting in Being. God is Being in the absolute sense, He is Immutable and Omniscient; He loves what conforms to Being; in the soul it is the aspect of "being" which He loves above all, and this aspect becomes one with that of "consciousness", in the sense that to return to our "being" is to realize pure "consciousness". God loves our actions only inasmuch as they express our "being" or lead to it; as such, our activity is of no importance to God....