Principle and Foundation
The human person is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by so doing save his or her soul; and it is for the human person that the other things on the face of the earth are created, as helps to the pursuit of this end.
It follows from this that the person has to use these things in so far as they help towards this end, and to be free of them in so far as they stand in the way of it.
To attain this, we need to make ourselves indifferent towards all created things, provided the matter is subject to our free choice and there is no prohibition. Thus for our part we should not want health more than sickness, wealth more than poverty, fame more than disgrace, a long life more than a short one - and so with everything else; desiring and choosing only what conduces more to the end for which we are created.
(Spiritual Exercises 23)
1 comment:
hebat... terusin ya... kapan-kapan tak tengok lagi.
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