If I make the world a better place for you, I have in turn made it a better place for me. But if I am so selfish that I take it upon myself to reverse the order of that process, I might have reversed the outcome for you, but I will have destroyed the world for me.

In the vast majority of cases, what I ‘need’ is actually what I ‘want’ dressed in clever disguise.

Sometimes the thing that’s chasing me does so most effectively by leading me to believe that I’m chasing it.

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

I want what I want! And I want to find what I want in the exact place, at exact time that I want it to be there. And maybe that’s why so many of us go ‘wanting’.

To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a million marvelous blessings.

Greed grants us the illusion of fulfillment on the one hand, while it empties out the soul on the other. And if that’s the case, could it be that greed is a symptom of stupidity?

As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.

I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.