@JayDyer Do you reckon that St. Augustine’s famous motto ‘Our hearts are restless until they rest in you’ is influenced by his early interest in Platonism?
If everyone practiced saying ‘No’ to important and necessary people in their lives, the world would be a better place.
“Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others… Concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.” — Miguel de Unamuno
@Coach_Verdu@BreeSolstad There is no favoritism. Suffering to make it better and/or exercising prudence is better than escaping to the outskirts. Sts. Peter and Paul, pray for us.
Saul’s initial sensing not to take food from the necromancer and being unable to resist the pressure of his servants (1 Sam. xxviii) is me. My life is in shambles and every single problem is not something I did unto myself came under the guise of a gift from others.