Article August 7, 1948 Issue

THE FULLNESS OF MIND

[Original article in French]

GASTON CHERRIÈRE

To human beings living in a material world and in the midst of material things, the possession of material goods seems to be a necessity and a legitimate goal. For this reason mortals bend every effort towards gaining those things that are considered indispensable to subsistence and well-being. But often they do not stop there, believing that a surplus of material things will bring them the happiness they covet.

True happiness, however, does not lie in the possession of earthly goods, but is to be found in the attainment of spiritual things. Limitation, lack, and insufficiency are inherent in material things, so ephemeral, limited, and perishable is their nature.

The convinced materialist is a perpetual malcontent, for he cannot find satisfaction or the fulfillment of his desires in the possession of material goods. And if the possession of material things sometimes engenders covetousness and other injurious feelings, it also engenders the fear of lack.

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