I place everything in Your hands, Lord. I entrust to You the destiny of my life. I surrender to Your will. Make of my life whatever You desire. I am under Your control. I surrender and place in You my trust in the providence of all that I do not control. Wash my heart of fear, wash my heart of dread; grant me peace and joy.
Lord, be with me every day; I need Your love. Stay with me, my God; I can no longer endure the harshness of this world. I want only You. Stay always by my side, Lord. I want Your embrace, I want Your affection, I want Your love. Nothing matters more than Your love, Jesus.
Humility is born from the recognition that there is nothing you can have, nothing you can be, that will change the fact that you, in essence, are just a soul—and that the other, in essence, is also just a soul.
If the world does not value you because you do not have money, a prestigious job, a socially accepted standard of beauty, or a position of influence, know also that those who have money, a prestigious job, a socially accepted standard of beauty, and a position of influence do not possess value either. Because, in truth and in truth itself, value is not in these things. Value has never been on the outside. I tell you that none of this truly matters, and none of it contains your true worth. Therefore, do not become vain nor diminish yourself because of the position the world assigns to you.
If you judge by the world’s judgment, you may despise, for example, a food delivery worker, but you do not know the level of peace he has; you do not know how brightly his soul shines; you do not know how much love he carries in his heart; you do not know how much gratitude is within him. And you, with money, beauty, and prestige, judging him—filled with bitterness, filled with hatred, filled with pride, filled with prejudice—while he performs a service that directly benefits you. Let us stop being ungrateful; let us stop living in illusion; let us stop forgetting that we have a soul. We must forget that we have money, forget that we have a standard of beauty, forget that we have social prestige when we speak with another human being. Because, in truth, the reality is that they are just two eternal souls interacting for a moment in time, and what will endure is the love that this interaction brought into the heart of each one involved.
Have humility, for Christ—who is the Christ—humbled Himself and never became vain; when they called Him good, He acknowledged that only the Father is good. Be humble in heart, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Do not allow the values of this world to enter your heart; the Lord said, “My Kingdom is not of this world.” Stop basing your life on what the world considers correct and important, because this world is still very far from living in the true Kingdom of God. You should not care about the opinions of others; you should not become vain because of the praise the world gives you regarding your exterior, your possessions, your status, your social position, or your body and your beauty, nor should you diminish yourself because of criticism or the absence of what this world judges to be important and necessary.
Do not think that your value lies in your body, in your beauty, in how much money you have, in how well-known you are, because all of that is external, all of it passes, all of it is illusion, all of it deceives you, diverting your eyes from what is truly important and true.
Do not forget that you possess a soul, do not forget that you possess a heart, do not forget that you possess a divine light within you, do not forget your essence.
If you continue to give more value to the exterior than to the interior, you will remain in the same cycles of births and rebirths, without a true purpose, entertained in a game of masks and illusions.
We live forgetting our true nature; we identify with what is not real, with what is only temporary and illusory. What is true is not what the eyes can see, not the exterior—status, money, beauty, the body; none of this is who you are. All of this passes.
Imagine feeling pride, vanity, superiority because of a shirt that will soon become trash. So why do you take pride in your money, your status, your beauty, your body? That is not what you are.
We live in a world so concerned with appearances that we forget we have a soul. What is important is not what is outside, but what is within. If you remain busy caring for and valuing only what is temporary and illusory, your soul—which is true and eternal—always pushed to the background, will shrink in sadness and bitterness. Immediately stop giving more value to what is not true and begin to prioritize what is truly real.
We have never had a society with so much anxiety and depression as we have today. In addition to judging ourselves in thousands of ways and placing all this weight upon ourselves, we enter the various media that exist today and consume content without limits (news, information, entertainment), whether positive or negative, but all of it fills our minds, leaving our heads overloaded and exhausting our psyche.
We need to rest, we need to allow ourselves to rest, we need to change our perspective on things so that we stop judging ourselves so much; we need to make peace with ourselves. Not everything is a struggle, not everything is a challenge, not everything is a competition; we do not need to demand so much from ourselves.
All we truly need is simply to rest—not only the body, but also the mind, our nervous system. We cannot rest if everything we think about, while we are “resting,” is the things we should be doing, or the guilt we feel for not doing anything. We live in a society sick with productivity; we always want to do more, always want to have more, always have to be better, always have to “update” ourselves. At what cost? What is the cost of this on our mental health? What is the cost of this on our hearts?
Why the anguish of trying so hard to achieve something? Why the guilt of doing nothing? Why does the feeling of unproductiveness come with such force? Who are we trying to impress? What matters, if not the impression we ourselves place upon our own hearts? We are constantly judging ourselves; we judge the people around us, but the ones who suffer from our own judgment are ourselves. Why do we live like this? Why do we place so much weight on ourselves? Why do we set so many expectations? Why do we turn our lives into a challenge and a battle?
Fragments of an awakened soul 