SD 4226 - reflection & life

SD 4226
. . .  with the person who is regenerated . . . 

in regard to matters of conscience,
conscientiousness is present in every particular 

of the person's thought and action,
though he is not aware of it;
with the pious man, piety is in everything;
with the obedient, obedience;
with the charitable, charity;
with the conjugial, conjugial love.
In all these cases the ruling principle is perpetually present
[in the minutest particulars],
though the person is not conscious of it.
In like manner is the presence of the Lord with the celestial angels;
they do not know it, still it is the Lord's presence.
Consequently when it is said that the Lord is continually to be thought of,
this that I have now described is what is meant by it;
not that person is to hold his thoughts 

perpetually and sensibly on that one theme,
which may, however, be done in the outset [and be persisted in]
until such a habit of unconscious continuity is acquired.
(April 17, 1749)