We ourselves cannot achieve the greatest things, (friendship, love, joy and happiness), they come to us only as a gift…Today almost no one speaks of eternal life which, in the past, was the true object of hope. Since people no longer dare believe in it, they must hope to obtain everything in this life. Setting aside hope in eternal life leads to greed for life here and now, which almost inevitably becomes selfish and, in the end, unattainable. Precisely when we want to take possession of life as a kind of treasure, it escapes us.
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