Pax Vobis

 

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Unfortunately, many of the "scruples" that St. Josemaria Escriva mentioned in the passage above are self-imposed. Perhaps, sparked by something outside ourselves that we kindled and nurtured internally. As Hamlet's famous soliloquy goes, "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of trouble, and, by opposing, end them?" By outrageous fortune--it could go either extreme--outrageously good or outrageously bad. It could commence as an idea that we continued to nurse and feed in our minds, causing turbulence and depriving us of peace. And...by St. Escriva's logic---"What takes away your peace of soul cannot come from God." What a useful guideline, isn't it? A great criterion whether something is for the higher good.