06-14

The Lord does not force us to accept what flows in from
him. Rather, he guides us in our freedom, and so far as we
let him, he uses our freedom to guide us to what is good.
So the Lord leads us in harmony with our pleasures and
also in harmony with our illusions and the assumptions
we base on them; but he gradually extracts us. Moreover,
it appears to us as though we do it on our own. The Lord
does not break our pleasures and illusions, then, since
to break them would be to violate our freedom, whereas
freedom is a must if we are to be reformed.
—Secrets of Heaven 6472:2