SERENITY "Are there ways for gauging one's spiritual strength?" "Many." "Give us one." "Find out how often you become disturbed in the course of a si… - Anthony de Mello

A story is the shortest distance between a human being and the truth.

You're never so centered on yourself as when you're depressed.

Now the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness — it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness; and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment. You will say, “Can’t I keep just one attachment?” Of course. You can keep as many as you want. But for each attachment you pay a price in lost happiness. Think of this: The nature of attachments is such, that even if you satisfy many of them in the course of a single day, the one attachment that was not satisfied will prey upon your mind and make you unhappy.