The Way of Peace and Liberty

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         Of the Imitation of Christ - Thomas a Kempis

 

            Four Things That Bring Much Inward Peace

 

  My child, now will I teach thee the way of peace and true liberty.

 

  O Lord, I beseech thee, do as thou sayest, for this is delightful

           for me to hear.

 

  Be desirous, my child, to work for the welfare of another rather

           than seek thine own will.

 

  Choose always to have less rather than more.

 

  Seek always the lowest place, and to be inferior to everyone.

 

  Wish always, and pray, that the will of God may be wholly

            fulfilled in thee.

 

   Behold, such a man entereth within the borders of peace

            and rest.

 

   O Lord, this short discourse of thine containeth within itself

         much perfection. It is little to be spoken, but full of

       meaning, and abundant in fruit. . . . 

 

   Thou who canst do all things, and ever lovest the profiting of

my soul, increase in me thy grace that I may be able to fulfill thy

words, and to work out mine own salvation.

 

 

This passage appears in God Makes the Rivers to Flow, Selections from

the Sacred Literature of the World Chosen for Daily Meditation by

Eknath Easwaran.                     

                  

All the passages in God Makes the Rivers to Flow are available on this

site.