47 min
Caverns of the Heart: A Retreat Guide on St. John of the Cross RCSpirituality
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- Religion & Spirituality
What do we really want? We live in a world of competing desires. Every day we’re bombarded by promises to make us truly happy. If you just buy this product, or read this book, or try out this dating app, or start this diet program, or exercise more, then you will be happy. If your relationship with your spouse or with your children or with your friends were better, then your heart would finally be full.
No matter how hard we try, nothing less than God will satisfy our hearts: As St. John of the Cross puts it, “They are as deep as the boundless goods of which they are capable since anything less than the infinite fails to fill them.”
What do we really want? We live in a world of competing desires. Every day we’re bombarded by promises to make us truly happy. If you just buy this product, or read this book, or try out this dating app, or start this diet program, or exercise more, then you will be happy. If your relationship with your spouse or with your children or with your friends were better, then your heart would finally be full.
No matter how hard we try, nothing less than God will satisfy our hearts: As St. John of the Cross puts it, “They are as deep as the boundless goods of which they are capable since anything less than the infinite fails to fill them.”
47 min