Divine Substance

Yvonne Trubert

Description

Ce livre est le troisième d'une série d'entretiens qu'Yvonne Trubert a accordés au Livre d'Invitation à la Vie, journal de l'association éponyme. Au travers de thèmes tels que la drogue, la dépression, l'adolescence, le couple, elle propose à chacun des éléments de réflexion consacrés tant aux plus quotidiennes des préoccupations qu'aux plus subtiles des questions sur le destin de l'homme et sa place dans le cosmos et d'où se dégagent deux sujets dominants : la force de l'amour et celle de la présence divine.

Sujets

• Religión

Informations

• Publié par: L'Harmattan
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 238
• EAN13: 9782296689916
• Langue: Français

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Divine Substance
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Yvonne TRUBERT


Divine Substance

Chronicle of Invitation to Life


Volume 3


L’Harmattan
Editor: Albertine Gentou
Translation: Isabel Custer Edwards
Peter Kimberley


Recorded between 1984 and 1995 for the internal journal of the non-profit organization Invitation to Life,
The Book of lVI,
These chronicles are excerpts from interviews given to
four journalists:
Marie Mignon Gardet, Marie d’Hennezel-Whitechurch,
Marie-Hélène et Albertine Gentou.

Bibliography
Gentou, Albertine and Mignon-Gardet, Marie, comps and eds. Invited to Live . Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007.

INTERNET
www.ivi.com (English)
www.ivi-international.org (English International site)
www.ivi.fr (IVI France site)

IVI Conferences on CD & Tape:
• Conference at Pantheon-Assas University (Assas)
"Man in search of himself”(February 11,1984)

Many of the interviews published in this and the following volumes are also available in the original publication or on cassette and CD, and can be ordered from the Paris center or through the website.


Photographs of Yvonne Trubert and Cover:
©Prisca Léonelli
Preface
The reader will find here the third volume of the interviews that were conducted for the Book of IVI, the internal journal of the Association Invitation to Life.
Through the most diverse of themes, Yvonne Trubert proposes elements for meditation consecrated as much to our daily preoccupations as to our subtle questions about humanity’s destiny and its place in the cosmos. Two themes are dominant: the strength of love and the divine presence.
I remember being on a small island during a pilgrimage in Scotland. While we sheltered ourselves from a steady drizzle near a wall of a chapel, nearby sheep bleated quietly. Yvonne Trubert spoke to the pilgrims about love, what we thought it to be, "that which gave the color to the cement of a wall, and yet, was really the cement itself."
Love has become a universal value. Today, who does not demand it? The idea has been bandied about but not necessarily understood. It remains rather that which gives life its color, as opposed to its essence, its very substance.
At the same time, faith has become a personal sentiment left to each person in his own appreciation.
Religious freedom like freedom of conscience denotes progress. It is not in the terrain of human rights – from which Invitation to Life sprang – that we should lack such freedom. Religion has too often functioned as a formidable and constraining regulator of social cohesion, much to the detriment of its primary function: linking man to the divine.
In short, the question is: to believe or not to believe? Doesn’t this choice have the greatest consequence of any other preference we manifest in our lives?
Does this question simply assume a private nature? Can this choice be compared to a question of sensibility, like choosing between Schubert or Mahler?
If God "is", the personal opinion of every person is trivial in the face of reality. To paraphrase Galileo, "And yet, He exists."
Today, humanity is driven to go even further. Faced with impending disasters, humanity knows that it is poised to destroy the planet on which it lives. Everyone can admit that the levels of awareness and paradigm shifts that need to occur are many.
We advance every day in the knowledge of the universe and the material world. The questions become increasingly more complex but the quest continues and progresses endlessly.
What if the greatest of challenges were to confront the question of the divine, finally and truthfully for what it is, not to impose a path, but still, irrelevant of one’s personal opinion, deal with the serious consequences for the future of humanity?
When faced with an obvious truth, our current conscience would not know how to resolve itself.
From time immemorial, messengers have existed. Let us open our ears and listen to them. Little by little, let us undo our barricades of thought in order to discover the echo within that gives birth to simple spiritual words. Through an inner evolution of thought, let us find the first breath of an answer, just as, long ago, the sages discovered the first mysteries of matter, which science confirmed much later.
Let us understand that we are children of God, of divine filiation and substance.
It is a unique and unprecedented quest to renew once and for all that link that has been broken between God and His children.
It is no longer a question of choice; it is the question of accessing the truth in our lives. No other question is as important.
May the comments of Yvonne Trubert guide the reader on this path.

Anne Donnay
Foreword

About Invitation to Life

The association Invitation to Life, commonly known as IVI, was founded by Yvonne Trubert in 1983 and has been awarded by the French government the status of "intérêt général" ("general interest"). The management of the association is entrusted to an administrative council, according to the law of 1901. Currently present in over 40 countries, Invitation to Life works for the personal development of each human being and provides support for all those who desire total and harmonious fulfillment in their lives. The association provides a means for each of its members to help him reach his goals: to discover the potential of his soul and to bring that potential to fruition while following the teachings of Christ in daily life. Invitation to Life also offers people the opportunity to work on their own behavioral habits (fear, jealousy, rancor, despair) that make them and others suffer. The founding principles of Invitation to Life aim for simplicity, without any form of esotericism or any selective intellectual reasoning.

The Mind

Of divine essence, of matter as well as spirit, atom and energy, man is much more than he seems or than he believes. The invisible part of him, his interior world, his soul is often left unaccounted for in our essentially materialist society.
Ignorant of the fact that invisible divine energy inhabits him, the human being is submitted to limitations that he creates and to the fears that keep him from becoming free and from fully becoming himself.
Yet, each person is unique. Each person has specific talents that constitute his heart and the foundation on which he will build his life and his relationship with others. The human being’s mission on earth is to truly become himself and thus help others. Each human being helps in the building of a better world.

The Member’s Path

At Invitation to Life, we believe that changing the perception of an "individual" towards that of a "person" happens necessarily through one’s personal development. Therefore, we work to liberate ourselves from the suffering that hinders and inhibits our soul to act within us. In isolation, a person cannot achieve this liberation because his suffering, fear or guilt makes it much too difficult to pinpoint and accept his habits, much less master them. The help of others is indispensable for one’s progress. IVI Members adhere to prayer groups in which the practice of respectful, silent and attentive listening of others allows them to confront their experiences and share solutions. This teamwork is illuminating and thus helps to drive out what makes us suffer through changes in consciousness within the context of everyday events. Thus we slowly erase the automatism and habits to which we fall victim.
In IVI’s centers, volunteers who are part of the association are on duty to listen and to welcome the public. Often, the public that arrives in an IVI Center is simply in need of some consolation. It is important to ask for help, and IVI Members respect this request. There is no preaching at IVI. In fact, there is a difference between the members’activities and what the members offer the public. For the association’s members, it is essential that there remain this difference.
When a person decides that he would like to become a member of IVI in order to help other people, that person is received in a preliminary meeting with the Opening Mission in order to have an information session. In this information session, said person will learn about the seven missions into which the association is divided: Opening, Teaching, Harmonizing, Listening, Linking, Discovering and Writing, the last of which is responsible for the edition of the Book of IVI, the internal journal of the association. If the person wants to join a group, the Teaching Mission signs him up for a new group with whom he will make his way for the duration of his time as a member of IVI.
Once a week, each group gets together to pray, then to listen to a lecture on a certain subject, e. g. forgiveness, perseverance, etc., and then to give testimonies of what they’ve been through and what they need to let go of, while being listened to in respectful and total