anima ii

It would happen as to the sea.

Because it murmurs continuously, and has its perennial motion... its waters are pure and crystal clear. Oh! if the waters of the sea were still, the waters would lose the purity and would become so nauseating, that no one would look at the sea. 

The waters would be so dirty and filled with filth, that the ships would not be able to cross the sea, and no one would make the fish of waters so putrid his food. So the sea would be a burden for the earth, and would cause the contagion [besmetting] of all maladies to the human generations.

On the other hand, by its mere murmuring and having its continuous motion, how much good does it not do to creatures? And while it hides who knows how much dirt inside its bosom, by its murmuring it has the power to keep it buried at the bottom, and it masters the purity of its waters, pure and emptied of any dirt. 

Such is the human will—more than sea: 

if the Divine motion murmurs in it, it is beautiful and pure, all evils remain buried and without life. But if My Will does not murmur in it and does not have its first motion, all evils arise again, and from the most beautiful it becomes the ugliest, such as to arouse pity.

[31.1.1928]