Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
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Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
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And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
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Slander is worse than cannibalism.
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