One Last Slug of Spiritual Advice That May Seem Impossible To Apply In Our Workplace
Today we'll conclude last week's consideration of spiritual advice that may seem impossible to apply in our workplace with this one last slug. Desire Nothing Count all this world’s goods as dross. They cannot bring happiness and content, and they generally harden the heart. The only free man is the one who desires nothing. Let your prayer be “Give me only Thy love and Thy grace. Having these, I have sufficient and nothing more do I ask.” Do not desire riches which buy only material things. All the really valuable things of life, such as love, friendship, happiness, contentment, are unpurchasable. A rich man is a man who desires things, who has not poverty of spirit. Neither desire that the hearts of others should be wrapped up in you, that esteem and honor should be yours, poor “mouth-breath” which satisfies no one. Do not desire health or sickness, a long life or a short one, prosperity or adversity. Leave yourself completely in the hands of God, Who know...