"Everything that exists is a gift from
God. Yet oftentimes we look to the things and creatures created by God for a
satisfaction and fulfillment that only God Himself can provide. When the soul
wraps itself around the things and the people of this world, looking for
satisfaction or fulfillment that only God can give, it produces a distortion in
itself, and in others as well. Many spiritual writers call the process of
unwinding this possessive, self-centered, clinging, and disordered seeking of
things and persons ‘detachment’. The goal of the process of detachment is not
to stop loving the things and people of this world, but, quite to the contrary,
to love them even more truly in God, under the reign of Christ, in the power of
the Holy Spirit. Things and people become even more beautiful and delightful
when we see them in this light. There are almost always painful dimensions to
this process of 'letting go' in order to love more, but it's the pain of true
healing and liberation. Christian detachment is an important part of the
process by which we enter into a realm of great freedom and joy."
— Ralph Martin, The Fulfillment of All Desire, p.
205
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