Day 36: The Temptation of Self-Reliance (Introduction to the Devout Life)
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How to Relieve Anxiety in Your Heart
When you perceive anxiety to arise in your heart, turn yourself to God and resolve to do nothing that your desires ask until you are restored to peace of soul. If you can tell your spiritual director the cause of your anxiety, or at least can tell some faithful and devout friend, you will most surely find calm of soul immediately. The communication of grief of heart has the same effect on the soul as bloodletting has on the body of a man in a fever. Thus, sorrow may be good or evil, depending on what kinds of effects it produces in us.
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