I want to live in peace. This is my single greatest desire. Perhaps it sounds simplistic, but when I have this peace I am happy and in love with life. Without this peace, life is a drudgery. I have experienced this peace. It is real. It is the most intense pleasure life has to offer. It heightens the sensitivity of all the senses and increases the intensity of all of lifes other pleasures. It is both calm and exhilarating. It could be likened to taking a journey to the deepest places and the highest places all at once. It is a contradiction and yet perfectly in balance. It is the fruit of an intimate harmony among the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual elements of the human person. Peace is not the absence of pain or pressure. Nor is it the absence of activity. Peace is not lying on a beach without a worry in the world. Peace is not born by doing nothing. This peace I speak of is a certainty in my heart and mind that I am using my life for a worthy purpose...that each day I am able to love more than the day before, that I am becoming a better person each day, in my own way I am touching and improving the lives of others. It is maintained with the conviction that the way I am spending the energies of my life makes sense. -Matthew Kelly
Posted on: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:52:02 +0000
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