Open the Gates of Confidence

Leave aside the fear of entering into our interior and face the need to know ourselves as we are: our illusions and ambitions, limitations and fears, the way we see ourselves…

We have to establish new relationships seeing which persons may be of help and how to be in contact with them. It is true that the world can be occasionally vulgar and even cruel. Without doubt, however, there are so many magnificent persons who would wish to establish friendship with us... Why not offer them the opportunity? Closing in upon ourselves is equivalent to resigning in defeat. To a majority of persons, this unwanted solitude brings harm. It is much more positive to have someone or some others with whom we communicate or share intimacy.

We have much more charm than we believe. We have enough capacity to make many other persons around us happy. What is the condition? Open the gates of confidence.

Extracted from the book “The Forces of Decadence” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga.