” “From the perspective of hope, everything changes for man: Benedict XVI offers this truth, stating that "life is not a mere product of laws or the cause and effect of the matter, but, in everything and at the same time above everything, there is a personal will, there is a Spirit that has revealed itself in Jesus as Love". "Maybe today explains the Pope many people refuse faith simply because eternal life does not seem desirable to them. They do not want eternal life at all, they want the present life, and faith in eternal life seems rather an obstacle to this purpose". Then, he adds that the perspective of eternity must not be looked at from an "individualistic" perspective, as if it were a "merely private eternal salvation". "This true life, which we always try to aim at, is related to being in an existential union with a "people" and can be accomplished for every individual only within this "us". The prerequisite to do this is to escape the captivity of one’s "self", because only by opening this universal subject one will also open one’s glance on the source of the joy, on love itself, on God". (continued)” “
