Process of getting closer to God

You should also bear witness when things are not going well.

It is like throwing stones into the sea. You do it ceaselessly and without
limitation until the stones fill the sea and create a mountain. 

Your heart grows from this. Although your body does not change, your
heart will grow. 

(96‑282, 13.02.1978)

God also showed me that sin does not bring shame to man, but honor. 

Sin is the sharpest scourge with which a chosen soul can be chastised, and this scourge completely strikes down and breaks people, making them appear insignificant in their own eyes, so much so that they think they are worthy of nothing more than sinking into hell. 

You should not think that you are entitled to go to heaven. You should think about building heaven on earth. 

But before that, you must become heavenly people yourselves. 

To become such a person, you must establish a unity of heart with the heavenly Father to the extent that you can confidently say: "The heart of the Father is my heart, and my heart is the Father's." 

Therefore, you shall be a person in this earthly life who represents God's heart, the Lord's heart, and also the heart of your ancestors.

If you have the heart of a child who seeks his mother, you can go the path toward God. 

Therefore, a spiritual self that has experienced love here on earth will certainly, like being drawn by a magnet, automatically go to exactly that kind of world. The level of the Spiritual World you go to depends on how much you have experienced and felt these things. 

(112‑17, 15.03.1981)

If a ladder to the heart of God in the kingdom of heaven exists, how do you want to climb this ladder? By flying back and forth in a helicopter?
Or in an elevator that takes you directly up? Would you fly in a helicopter? You would want to go up in an elevator, in an elevator that works all year round. It is vertical.
To connect with the love of God, you must be in a vertical po-
sition. The Bible says: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your

The more you let go, the closer you are to God.

The more rain falls, the more it softens the earth. The more often we call on the name of Christ, undisturbed by any thought, the more fruitful he will make the soil of our hearts, making it tremble with joy and delight. 

No man is worthy of heavenly consolation who has not first practiced diligently in the school of holy contrition. If your hard mind is to be softened / your closed heart is to be opened again / then go into your chamber and do not let the tumult of the world in. As the Scripture says: in your chambers speak to your heart / until it becomes sore and soft.

Here is the English translation of the text you provided:

Since I was a monk, I believed I must be lost if I felt any carnal desire, such as lust, anger, hatred, envy, and the like, toward a brother. I tried many things, confessing every day, but it did not help; for such desires kept returning.