In the existential moment in which we live, we focus too much on the appearance of failure, be they professional, personal, and social. In accordance with the actualisation of the philosopher’s own words, found in the Spiritist Codification, for such a long time, we have been tied up to the sensible world, to everything that impresses our senses, to the detriment of the real world, the spirituality, the purest sentiments.
According to the dictionary definitions, adversity is an inopportune, inconvenient, unsuitable, inappropriate event. It is a destructive experience, a lack of luck, a misfortune, an unfortunate event. It gives us the opportunity, however, to analyse whether misfortune brings with it the necessity for reflection on the values credited to it. What were the reasons for it? Were they preventable? What were the objectives behind an event that occurred on a personal level? What were the previous commitments and the reasons that they happened? It is still necessary to analyse if the misfortune would not be an invitation to analyse potential necessary changes, such as: ones vision of the world, ones relationships, and ones values.
The Spirit of Joanna de Angelis in a message entitled "Success and succes" defines the Success of material life as a consequence from human achievements, and emphasizes that there is another Success, which comes from the willpower and overcoming of humans tendencies, moral imperfection and everything else that prevents the human being from growing towards the real life.
God manifests Itself in our lives in many ways. His answers to our afflictions arise in ways that benefit us, by keeping us in balance and self-preservation. Jesus of Nazareth, in order to do so, has brought to us the way, revealing the truth so sought after by human philosophies, and the Real Life, which is so clearly consigned by the Spiritist Philosophy, as pure as His message could be. Therefore, following such teachings, even in the days of great disbelief as they are today, seeking the necessary and clear explanations from the Doctrine of Light, Spiritism, will clearly bring the appropriate and coherent answers for the maintenance of inner peace and for the harmony within ones relationships.
Sonia Theodoro da Silva
Philosopher
(Published and translated by The Journal of Psychological Studies, London, England)
