SELF-CONTROL
Genuine love will take no account of what gratifies the other, of what is agreeable to him and gives him joy, but will only direct itself towards what will benefit him, regardless of whether it affords him pleasure or not. That is genuine love and service!
Abd-ru-shin
Often the hardest struggles we face are those situations in which we have to appear untroubled, carefree, cheerful and happy, and yet we would prefer to weep – or else those moments in which our blood ‘boils’, our nerves are stretched to breaking point and we would like to scream in anger, but have to reign in our feelings, hold on to ourselves, our emotions and behaviour and keep silent. We may perceive we are derailed from the trajectory we have come to believe we have designed to propel us unstoppably through life. Confounded expectations can bring on quite painful emotions. What tumult may be running painfully through the soul at such moments,
