Most of our troubles are worries about troubles we expect to encounter. Our greatest trouble is our dread of trouble. It is like an iceberg, one fifth visible and four fifths submerged.
Anticipation of trouble often brings greater suffering than the trouble itself. To fret about today and to worry about tomorrow are human traits that no philosophy is going to greatly change or mollify.
It is important therefore to evaluate our problems properly. When we do that we can usually reduce the big ones to the size we can manage.
A lot of our troubles are largely the bogies of our own imaginations - small torments inflated by fear into large problems.
I've been meditating on Psalm 37. The writer had seen the wicked thrive and the righteoous suffer. In spite of that,he could still speak of safety of the righteous.
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