Elder Arsenie Boca: A heart full of love never tires

Love is the natural flow of Life. You obtain peace and quiet when you let Life flow through you, and you don't resist anything.

Tiredness comes from the struggle of our being with life. When you oppose Life by judging, criticizing, getting angry, and doing your will, you lose the life within you and get tired; this is normal because you are swimming against the current.

Love is the natural flow of Life. You obtain peace and quiet when you let Life flow through you, and you don't resist anything. Did you ever get tired when you were joyful, or in love, or when you were praying? At that time, you were letting yourself be carried away by the flow of Life, and you weren't resisting. At that time, you were opening up your heart.

You get tired when you seek something with your mind because a heart full of love never tires. And the mind always seeks something- reasons, arguments - and always finds something to cling to, but in essence, the mind also seeks peace and quiet.

Therefore, the struggle is not between us and the ones around us, or between us and the events in our lives, but between US and OURSELVES, and this interior struggle is what exhausts us.