The Wise Person

Whoever has succeeded in emptying their mind is a wise person.

Those who empty themselves experience the same soothing sensation as when a high fever breaks: rest and refreshment, precisely because the “I” is flame, fire, fever, desire, passion

Self-presence is typically disturbed by delusions of the "I." Once the "I" is eliminated once more, the wise person acquires full self-presence and begins to control everything they do—when they speak, react, and walk.

Through this sincere and spontaneous abandonment of self and self-possessions, the wise person, launches unhindered into the depths of freedom once freed from all the bonds of the “I”. Therefore, once managed to experience mental emptiness, the sage person comes to live free of all fear and remains in the stability of one who is beyond change.

And so, the poor and dispossessed, feeling detached from themselves, slowly enter the warm waters of serenity, humility, objectivity, kindness, compassion, and peace. As we can see, we are already at the heart of the Beatitudes.

That is why a wise person respects and venerates everything, in such a way that does not give free rein to possessive or aggressive attitudes. Wise persons feel others' problems as their own, being capable of treating others with the same reverence and understanding as themselves and they never invade the sanctuary of other intentions or judge them. Their style is always one of high courtesy and delicate manner. They love their neighbor as themselves.

Extracted from the book “From Suffering to Peace” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga