Stop Doing Violence to Yourself

There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence . . . activism and overwork.  The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence.  To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands.  To commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence.  The frenzy. . . kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.

--  Thomas Merton  (From Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Day by Day by Pete Scazzero)

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