“To receive everything from the mercy of God is to accept that God is the source of richness not us. This requires a great poverty of the heart” Jacques Philippe.
To live life with an inner disposition of gratitude and compassion is to understand that we in ourselves are of little consequence and whatever we have or create if worthy is of the providence of the universe or God. To live this way is to be emptied of our self-possession and self-aggrandizing ways. Only in God are all things possible and thus completely beautiful.