There is no peace to the wicked, the Bible tells us. There is a dreadful sound in the ears of the rich that never ceases. To be plagued continually by the fear of losing loved ones, sickness, insanity, and calamities along life’s highway, is a poor form of living. To struggle and strive, trying to avoid bankruptcy or loss of our goods that we work so hard for, and to mistreat our fellow man by unjust transactions, is not life. A religious life of hypocrisy, deceiving ourselves daily by intellectual reasoning, assuring ourselves of a faith and hope that doesn’t really exist down in our hearts: would you say this is life?
Walang saysay na pamumuhay yaong palagi kang tinatakot ng alalahaning mawawala sa iyo ang iyong mga mahal sa buhay; palagi kang pinagbabantaan ng pangam ba na ikaw ay magkakasakit, mababaliw at dadalawin ng mga trahedya sa buhay. Gayon din, ang malabis na pagpupunyagi at pag-iwas na mawala ang kayamanang pinaghirapan nating matamo; at ang paghamak natin sa ating kapwa at paglinlang sa kanila. Nariyan pa ang pagpapakitang-tao na tayo’y relihiyose, subalit sarili natin ang ating dinadaya, at gumagawa tayo ng sariling pangangatwiran na mayroon tayo ng pananalig at pag-asa na sadya namang wala pa sa ating puso. Matatawag ba nating mainam na buhay ang ganito?