Withdraw from effort that entails forcing yourself or forcing events that must unfold according to their own rhythms, beyond your control or that of anyone else.
The culture of the material world, intrinsically bound to a focus on egoic interests, induces the belief that to be responsible and mature is to live in tension and worry. Such an attitude toward the occurrences of existence only generates wear and rupture of physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Seek, insofar as possible, to be attentive to and occupied with what is constructive and resolutive. Try attentiveness without tension, occupation without preoccupation.
To rest in a state of mild disciplined activity is, paradoxically, the psychological pattern you must make your continuous modus operandi, in every area and department of your existence.
This choice, as a philosophy of life, joined to the pursuit of prioritizing the essential values of the spirit, favors a safe passage toward full self-realization, toward the transcendence of oneself, toward the overcoming of the circumstantial panorama in which one is situated.
Scholars of the phenomenon of flow, the condition in which great professionals attain and sustain a level of excellence in their performance, recommend an equivalent measure: striving that draws the individual out of their comfort zone, without provoking, however, unsustainable wear in the day-to-day of long working hours.
The distinction between our counsel and that of specialists thus resides in the fact that we postulate the primacy of what ought to be at the center of every human being’s attention: matters pertaining to the realm of the ideal, of vocation, of spirituality.
Such a guideline of conduct represents a conceptual key to understanding another paradox, proposed by the Christ-Word Jesus: “Come to me, all you who are weary, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you [...] and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”¹
1. Matthew 11: 28-30.
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium)
Eugênia-Aspásia (Spirit)
in the Name of Mary Christ
April 20, 2026