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We cannot be simplistic in our search for and experience of authentic spirituality, so as not to castrate the body and its functions or surrender to the world and its responsibilities. Let us remember the insight of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, when observing the vibrating strings of a musical instrument, and let [...] Pacify your heart and calm will emerge. With tranquillity, clear thinking will arise. With clear discernment, judicious choices will spontaneously sprout. With the right decisions, the appropriate pattern of conscience and conduct for living will naturally be established. With the adequate intimate compass and tenor of behavior, the creature will be aligned with God’s [...] Love is the beginning and the end of everything. But, before it, there is goodness, tenderness, compassion. If you cannot feel even this, beloved child, try to experience friendship, fraternity, sympathy, or have a good laugh with someone — as long as you do not laugh at anyone. When love is not possible, start [...] Jesus referred to the “good part”¹ in the exchange between Martha and Mary, Lazarus’ sisters, saying that whoever chose it would never be deprived of it. As a rule, however, human beings understand the “best choice” as the easiest, most pleasant, and/or the one that presents immediate beneficial results.
Do not harden your heart when stony hearts seek you out or collide with yours. Offer your fraternal service wherever and with whomever you are, not as a favor to others, but as a duty to fulfill before the altar of your own conscience. Defend yourself and protect people, ideas, values or institutions within [...] |
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