Jesus says in St. Mark’s Gospel: “There is nothing outside a man which by going into him can defile him; but the things which come out of a man are what defile him!”57 Harm does not come to us from external circumstances, but from how we react to them interiorly. “What ruins our souls is not what happens outside, but the echo that it awakes within us.”58 The harm that other people do to me never comes from them, it comes from me.
