When we are free it means we are free from being seduced by the immediacy of the situation.
Sorry, but the laws of life dictate that you can’t have it all, and those who try end up losing everything important to them.
When you determine a choice for one thing you exclude another. What you exclude determines what you gain.
Freedom means you are a disciple of reality. And being a disciple of reality means you are limited.
If you don’t discipline yourself, circumstances will do it for you.
When we lose something dear to us, it is not the loss per se that counts so much, but our determination to regain it.
Do you have body experiences, ego experiences, or self experiences? Be careful how you answer for while the body and ego collaborate, the self is independent.
Many concentrate on building the body and/or ego, but few there be that concentrates on building the self. It is possible to build both the body and the self, and the body and the ego, but one cannot build all three at the same time or in the same degree.
Perhaps the person you have judged inferior is in fact superior. But you won’t detect that until the cataracts of your soul is removed and his sins are viewed in proper perspective.
Empathy is one of the most neglected of virtues. You simply cannot understand or sympathize with the sufferings of another until you have walked the path he has walked.
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I love the comment about empathy. It is so true and that is perhaps the greatest benefit of our trials in life. Even though they may be difficult for us, they not only help us to grow and progress (if we remain awake and aware and try to learn the lessons contained in the trials) but they also help us to have empathy for others which is part of charity, one of the most priceless gifts of God. Thus our trias can become blessings, not only to ourselves but to others also.
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