The living Spirit and liturgical calendar

01 October 2020, The Tablet

Don’t spend your life moaning. Being miserable depresses us, diminishes us, discourages us; and expressing it makes it worse. The more we say, “It’s hard”, the more miserable we become.

Don’t spend your life moaning. Being miserable depresses us, diminishes us, discourages us; and expressing it makes it worse. The more we say, “It’s hard”, the more miserable we become.

No, nothing is hard, if we look at life from the point of view of him who gives it to us. We mustn’t think about tomorrow. Almost the whole of our suffering comes from our imagination and from looking ahead pointlessly. We should live in the present moment.

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