The key to happiness and fullness of life:
Be a shell and not a channel, my friend!!

When we act as a channel, we take God’s love, through us, to others. But when it has passed through us, we remain dry (without any love left) and so do those reached.

However, when we are a shell under the eternal fountain of God’s love, we become full and then overflow, continuously, to others. We become full, always full of God’s love, and others continuously receive the overflowing love from our lives.

This is the secret of eternal happiness.

Be a shell and not a channel, my friend!!

(Taken from an original teaching by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, France, XII Century. The last Father of the Church).