How to overcome the temptation of the flesh

I feel that the answer from Brother Giles is very much like the one that Jesus said, to cut off the arm or dig out the eye that tempts us. No questions asked, but in acknowledging that the flesh is weak, we do not attempt to fight the temptation in our own pride.

Quote below:

"Brother Juniper, I hold with thee; for there is no surer way of overcoming this enemy than flight; inasmuch as he attacks us within by means of the traitor appetite, and without through our bodily senses; and so by flight alone can this masterful foe be overcome. And he who resists it in any other way, after all the toil of the conflict, rarely comes off victorious. Fly, then, from this vice, and thou shalt gain the victory."

Brother Giles from the Little Flowers of St. Francis Assisi.

How it reminds me to never give up, even in the very, very, last moment.

Today's successes

1. reestablished my blog
2. made my list of Goals for 2009
3. gained confidence in myself to work harder in school and for myself

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
US author (1804 - 1864)

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

- E.E. Cummings

The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Dr Seuss

Lenz: inspiring words for someone who loves to travel and meet people!

God, a man of his word

My word is like the snow and the rain
that comes down from the sky to water the earth.
They make the crops grow
and provide seed for planting and food to eat.

So also will be the word that I speak -
it will not fail to do what I plan for it;
it will do everything I send it to do.

Isaiah 55:10-11

Money should not be a major factor in influencing one's outlook and attitude in life.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author (1850 - 1894)

God does not need to receive but human beings need to give. - wise saying