Life
Offers us its most precious gifts through the simplest acts
August 2nd 2014
Today’s culture offers us endless objects and activities to entice and tempt us. And not only are people not warned of the dangers involved, but everything possible is done to persuade them that the satisfaction they will derive from these things will help them feel fulfilled and that their fulfilment actually depends on such things. Well, no, their lives will not be any richer for greatly increasing desires that all need to be satisfied. On the contrary, many of these so-called advances and improvements are to the detriment of life itself, because essentially their aim is to satisfy material needs. People imagine they will be able to live more intensely because of this, when in reality what is being offered is a superficial restlessness, which dissipates all their energies. What they call ‘living life to the full’ is a way of thinking and behaving that will most certainly lead them to death.
Even if humans are convinced that life is the most precious possession, they rarely understand that the most important thing in life is life itself. If they made the effort to develop their psychological and spiritual faculties instead of dissipating their energies in activities that make them weaker, they would discover that life’s real treasures are to be found in the simplest actions of daily life. Breathing, eating, walking, opening our eyes to nature, loving, thinking – these are life’s true gifts.