Reflection: 07.17.2017
One Minute Meditations
Pessimism
If the outlook in your interior life and in your soul is darkened, allow yourself to be led along by the hand, as a blind man would do.
In time the Lord will reward this humble surrendering of your own judgement by giving you clarity of mind.
- St. Josemaria Escriva, The Forge, No. 241
Life in Christ: Catechism No. 2339
Chastity includes ar apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom. The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy. "Man's dignity therefore requires him to act out of conscious and free choice, as moved and drawn in a personal way from within, and not by blind impulses in himself or by mere external constraint. Man gains such dignity when, ridding himself of all slavery to the passions, he presses forward to his goal by freely choosing what is good and, by his diligence and skill, effectively secures for himself the means suited to this end."
Pessimism
If the outlook in your interior life and in your soul is darkened, allow yourself to be led along by the hand, as a blind man would do.
In time the Lord will reward this humble surrendering of your own judgement by giving you clarity of mind.
- St. Josemaria Escriva, The Forge, No. 241
Life in Christ: Catechism No. 2339
Chastity includes ar apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom. The alternative is clear: either man governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy. "Man's dignity therefore requires him to act out of conscious and free choice, as moved and drawn in a personal way from within, and not by blind impulses in himself or by mere external constraint. Man gains such dignity when, ridding himself of all slavery to the passions, he presses forward to his goal by freely choosing what is good and, by his diligence and skill, effectively secures for himself the means suited to this end."