There are red signals in the path of experience indicating a probable fall into obsession: When we enter the lane of impatience;

When we believe our grief is the greatest;

When we come to see ingratitude in our friends;

When we imagine evil in the attitudes of our fellow men;

When we remark on the less fortunate aspects of some person or other;

When we demand appreciation and gratitude;

When we believe our work is excessive;

When we spend the day demanding effort without putting forth the slightest service;

When we intend to free ourselves through the taste for alcohol or the pinch of drug;

When we consider duty to be only on the side of others.

Whenever one of these signals flashes into the traffic of our ideas the Divine law is present, reminding us of the prudence of stopping in the succor of prayer or in the light of discernment.

Scheilla