cappie Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 [quote name='scardella' post='1082041' date='Oct 3 2006, 04:06 AM'] If you give in to them, then you [i]might[/i] initially feel good. Then you are objectively worse off and you probably won't feel good later. However, if you deny them, you probably won't initially feel good. However, you're objectively better off, and may feel good about it later. Why can't we just have ordered desires? That way, the things we want will make us happy. [/quote] In our exuberance we continually ask of God's creation more than it can be. We regularly pour our heart's desires into some part of God's creation and ask it to be the fulfilment we seek. We ask some part of God's creation to be uncreated. We take a good and ask it to be a god. This slavery of the heart is the result of disordered desire. The solution, the liberation of the heart, is not accomplished by annihilation of desire but by its [b]reorientation[/b]. When our tradition talks about attachments, it does not mean that relationship with the world is a problem. Certainly, sometimes the world is a problem. But we have to relate to the one world we have. Relating to the world is not the basic problem in attachment; it is how we are relating that becomes the problem. Our saints are talking to adults whose heart has been enslaved by someone or something in place of God. It is not necessarily the person or thing that is the problem, but the way we are relating to them, the disordered way our desire or longing is being expressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Red Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 thanks father, i needed that : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fearundercontrol Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 [quote name='scardella' post='1082041' date='Oct 2 2006, 03:06 PM'] If you give in to them, then you [i]might[/i] initially feel good. Then you are objectively worse off and you probably won't feel good later. However, if you deny them, you probably won't initially feel good. However, you're objectively better off, and may feel good about it later. Why can't we just have ordered desires? That way, the things we want will make us happy. [/quote] Here here! Stupid original sin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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