"We live in a day and age characterized by an extraordinary amount of agitation and lack of peace. This tendency manifests itself in our spiritual as well as our secular life. In our search for God and holiness, in our service to our neighbor, a kind of restlessness and anxiety take the place of the confidence and peace which ought to be ours. What must we do to overcome the moments of fear and distress which assail us all too often in our lives? How can we learn to place all our confidence in God and abandon ourselves into his loving care?.... Since peace of heart is a pure gift of God, it is something we should seek, pursue and ask him for without cease."
Pg#: Back Cover of Searching for and Maintaining Peace of Heart
Commentary [Parallels]:
In a world where money is king, drugs make you happy, and sex is synonymous with love there is no peace to be had. How can there be? If I'm too occupied with my sycophantic, entrepreneurial endeavors that will eventually lead to my "big success" my oodles of riches how am I live with my busied existence? If I rely on "natural" substances to escape/manipulate/skew reality, to my detriment, without which I'm not sure that I can be happy, where is my purpose? If I subscribe to the belief that sex will automatically lead to love or that it's something to be dealt out loosely and freely, how am I ever meant to go past pleasure and enter into self-giving? And of course these are rhetorical questions meant to illicit a firm "I don't know", but, isn't there some grain of truth that is gained by them? To be sure, Jacques Phillippe does not spend the whole of his book diatribe-ing about the various poses in which society today lies in the disturbed, agitated shadows of assuring the safety and success of one's own life at all costs.
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