Daily Message
Bonjour!
From the book , "" Conquering the Mind"" by Eknath Easwaran....
Of course, money has a place in life, even in the spiritual life. But to ascribe to money these impossible magic qualities, to make it the measure of things or the very goal of life, is to disinherit ourselves from the divine trust fund we all have stored up inside. Our real wealth is our inner resources, which are infinite because the core of our personality is dvine. And the purpose of life is not to accumulate physical tokens of wealth but to mine these deeper resources for the good of all. That is the supreme goal of our existence and the only source of lasting value.
Meister Eckhart, one of the greatest mystics the world has produced, put this in memorable words: Nature's purpose is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else from which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks and hunts and tried to ferret out the track in which God may be found.
A small lenten reflection from the book,""Thoughts & affections on the passion of Jesus Christ"" by FRA GAETANO. M.DA. BERGAMO Capuchin....
""Judas accuses himself of his treason, but he accuses himself as if he had merely betrayed a good man, not the Son of God. Here we behold His want of faith. Judas recollects the miracles of Jesus Christ and benefits that he had received from Him, by all this increasing the deformity of his sin:but he does not think of the mercy of Jesus Christ, to trust in Him, and to ask His pardon. Behold his want of hope. He had, with wicked confidence, deeply abused the mercy of God. Therefore, like another Cain, he is now overwhelmed with the heinousness of his crime, in such a manner that it appears to him there is no further mercy for him.
7hve a blessed day!
From the book , "" Conquering the Mind"" by Eknath Easwaran....
Of course, money has a place in life, even in the spiritual life. But to ascribe to money these impossible magic qualities, to make it the measure of things or the very goal of life, is to disinherit ourselves from the divine trust fund we all have stored up inside. Our real wealth is our inner resources, which are infinite because the core of our personality is dvine. And the purpose of life is not to accumulate physical tokens of wealth but to mine these deeper resources for the good of all. That is the supreme goal of our existence and the only source of lasting value.
Meister Eckhart, one of the greatest mystics the world has produced, put this in memorable words: Nature's purpose is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else from which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks and hunts and tried to ferret out the track in which God may be found.
A small lenten reflection from the book,""Thoughts & affections on the passion of Jesus Christ"" by FRA GAETANO. M.DA. BERGAMO Capuchin....
""Judas accuses himself of his treason, but he accuses himself as if he had merely betrayed a good man, not the Son of God. Here we behold His want of faith. Judas recollects the miracles of Jesus Christ and benefits that he had received from Him, by all this increasing the deformity of his sin:but he does not think of the mercy of Jesus Christ, to trust in Him, and to ask His pardon. Behold his want of hope. He had, with wicked confidence, deeply abused the mercy of God. Therefore, like another Cain, he is now overwhelmed with the heinousness of his crime, in such a manner that it appears to him there is no further mercy for him.
7hve a blessed day!
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