EVENTS OF LIFE
THINGS THAT MATTER “ It is not the events of life that make life worth while,” writes Father Aloysius Roche in his book “ The Things that Matter." “ It is not by the quantity of things that keep happening to us that we are to gauge the value and fullness and completeness of our life. “ What matters essentially is our attitude to our life, the way in which
we face it, the way in which we treat it. It is not the quantity of stuff that is in our life that counts; it is the quality. It is not enough to say: ‘ My life is filled to the very brim with interests and activities.’ We must ask: ‘ What sort of interests and activtities are these ? ’ “ It is easy enough—very easy—to fill one’s life with things that do not really matter at all—with trifles. It is not enough to say: ‘The vessel is filled. It is as full as can be. ’ “Filled? Yes, perhaps; but filled with what ? Nowadays it is considered a great thing to fill one’s life somehow, with no matter what. But it is what is in the vessel, it is what the vessel contains, that alone matters, not its fullness. Mere fullness is of no consequence.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4523, 14 January 1942, Page 2
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