To Relativize Is to Liberate Oneself

We realize the following truth many times: the human mind is the principal source of our own afflictions. If you awake and become aware of this, that your mind is the generator of so much anguish, a great part of your pains and sadness will disappear from your soul.

Let us not hold on to illusions. We would like to retain the pleasant moments, eternalize brilliant successes, but we are discovering that everything escapes us and disappears.  

Awake, therefore, my brother, again and again and in each misfortune and preoccupation, be aware of the relativity of everything that happens to you and thus, you will acquire energy to rise above emergencies and install yourself within the unchangeable recesses of your presence, self-possession, and serenity.

And from this position, you may be able to balance the weights of existence, the bonds of time and space, and the strikes that come from outside and from within. And when this happens, your world will be filled with harmony and joy, and your brethren will join in with your own liberation.

Extracted from the book “The Art of Being Happy” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga