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« Wisdom begins with the acceptance of the inevitable and continues with the just transformation of what can be. »
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Frédéric Lenoir
Small treatise on inner life |
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Frédéric Lenoir
Small treatise on inner life
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« "Happy life is therefore one that is in accordance with one's own nature" and that of the world, sums up Seneca »
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Frédéric Lenoir
Small treatise on inner life |
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Frédéric Lenoir
Small treatise on inner life
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« Your children are not our children: they are unique beings that life has entrusted to us. They have their own intelligence, and the best we can do is help them take flight, become self-reliant. And for that, there is only one way: to love them unconditionally. Similarly, our spouses do not belong to us. Life has allowed us to cross paths so that we can help each other grow and become fully ourselves. To love is not to overwhelm the other, much less make him dependent on himself. On the contrary, it is to want autonomy. Jealousy, possessiveness, fear of losing the other are passions that parasitize or even destroy the couple's relationship. True love does not hold back, it liberates. He does not suffocate the other, he teaches him to "breathe better. When we love, we attach ourselves with our hearts to the one we love, but our mind must remain lucid about the fact that the other does not belong to us and about the motivations, often unconscious, that attach us to him. It is through this effort of discernment, of awareness that we can detach ourselves, in the spiritual sense of the term, not to overwhelm the other, to make it our thing. We attach ourselves with the heart and we can remain detached by a work of the mind that realizes that the other does not belong to us. And it is also a detachment of the mind that allows us to better overcome separations and disappearances. »
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Frédéric Lenoir
The consolation of the angel |
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Frédéric Lenoir
The consolation of the angel
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