Licking the ground
Looking back on my life—and this happens to me sometimes—I'm most struck by how everything that once seemed most important and attractive now seems so ridiculous and absurd. For example, success in all its forms; fame and glory; imaginary pleasures like making money, seducing women, or traveling—rushing around the world, far and wide, like Satan, trying everything Vanity Fair has to offer. From today's vantage point, all these efforts to indulge ourselves seem like nothing more than a bubble,what Pascal called "licking the ground."
Malcolm Muggeridge
The ancient Roman philosopher Seneca said that the soul should not leave this world hungry.
A satiated soul is a mind and heart engaged in a work that enriches everyone in the world—oneself, other people, and all of nature. A person who has found their calling reveals their talents to serve others, and through them, God. This is a satiated soul that sees the Great Laws of the Universe and feels a profound connection with them.
Ultimately, it's not so much how much we accomplish on this Earth as what we accomplish. Leaving everything on Earth, we will ascend with gratitude to a place where the experience of the senses and the mind is the only true treasure, which we mine in the earthly realms like miners descending once again into dangerous shafts for what's hidden in the earth. gold.
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