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Spiritual Friends, help us to break the cultural hypnosis of anguish, of panic, of despair, so that humanity, goodness and solidarity can flourish in our hearts, and we can see, above the thick clouds that announce the storm, the resplendent Sun of everlasting Light, which invites us to an unfettered trust in the Lord/Lady and in His/Her Divine Providence and Infinite Love.
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O God, Infinite Goodness and Perfect Intelligence, help us to understand moments of crisis as periods of sorrow, of reflective, self-educative, self-corrective introspection, of self-analysis with focus on the good, on happiness, on constructive spiritual purposes, so we can benefit not only ourselves but extend these benefits to those who are in our scope of responsibility or in our direct or indirect circle of personal influence.
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We can live our best, in any circumstance. Let us not create justifications for our decadence. When suffering greater problems, let us feel encouraged to seek emotional, moral, spiritual reserves to develop new capacities and activate the best in ourselves, making us more useful to the common good, more capable of peacemaking, of congratulating ourselves and everyone within our direct or indirect circle of personal influence.
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The more we mature psychologically, the stronger we become to face, with greater tranquility, security, readiness and resilience, new crises in the future, which are natural phenomena of the human condition — and even of the existence itself, in any evolutionary level: below or above the human condition of consciousness. Let’s seize these more intense incentives to self-improvement, to outdoing oneself, to transcendence, in the fullest way possible to us.
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Let us understand the existential crisis as an invitation to excellence. Let’s be cautious, prudent, rational, let’s get informed and make lucid choices. But, having done what is reasonable, just and ethical, in the field of our personal responsibility, let’s seize the evolutionary stimulus and direct our focus inward and upward, to our most profound interiority, the axis of our conscience, our most elevated platform of transcendentality, so that we can intuit purposes, see spiritual endeavors and perceive the Light of God, amid the shadows of the trial.
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar and Spiritual Friends