Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Eternal Truth and the Uphill Climb | Bishop Barron | EP 431" video.

God is the cosmic clock, ticking off the moments for all of existence, setting speed limits, governing rates of change. "Eternity" is the temporally-rarified space around the throne of God, so to speak, where time appears to disappear because the space between moments is so small--the time between "ticks" of the cosmic clock is the shortest possible time--virtually nothing in existence can change as fast as one tick. God is the source of Intelligence: a function of intelligence is the speed with which you can change your full attention from one thing to the next--how quickly you can "vibrate". The more quickly you can do this the more intelligent you must be.
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The Roman Catholic Church considers Protestantism to be heretical. No matter how nicely you respect Catholicism, It still wants to kill you for your heresy.
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The human being's concourse with "spirits" provides exactly the experience the human being requires for its development of its innate capabilities, the exercise of which yields the greatest possible self-satisfaction. "Existence is suffering", technically, as any and all experience is "suffered"...participated in with the full being. The character and intensity of the suffering inherent in experience is impressed upon the substratum of the universe, becoming "memories", as the universe records your passage through it, like footprints in the sand. These impressions are permanent possessions of the universe, and, as such, are available for contact...even in the discarnate state. The total collection, so to speak, of these impressions constitutes the "soul", which responds resonantly to every observation/identification cycle, providing associations from experiential memory. The local universe ripples with every intention we have! And reverberates with the soul's resonant response!
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"The proper aim is the highest aim, always", Jordan said. That's a tempting absolutism, but in at least one way it's wrong, as stated, since, in accomplishing a goal, it is often efficient to break down the effort into steps, that is, intermediate goals. You have to WALK a mile because you can't STEP a mile. And the conception of the "highest aim" may even change as you approach it.
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