Come to me, all you toil and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take my yoke on you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light (Mt 11:28-30). This teaching of reverent humility drives, exhales, from the soul the windy and stormy desire that is greedy for things outside our power. For toil is necessary where many things are sought and loved, and the mere willing of them is not enough to get them or keep them. A righteous life, however, is present when we will it, because fully to will it is itself righteousness, and the perfection of righteousness requires nothing more than a perfect will. No toil is present when to will it is enough. That is why God said, "Peace on earth to men of good will" (Lk 2:14). Where there is peace, there is rest; where there is rest, there is an end to longing, and no reason to toil.But for this will to be full, it has to be healthy, and it will be healthy if it does not refuse to call for the physician by whose grace alone can it be healed of the desire for harmful things. The physician who cries out: "Come to me all you who toil" is the one whose yoke is easy and his burden light because by the charity poured forth in our hearts we love what he commands, and it will not be a bitter thing nor burdensome if we serve beneath his yoke with necks the freer the less swollen they are. This is the only burden which does not weigh down but raises the one who bears it. If it is wealth that you love, let it be kept where it cant be lost. If its honor you desire, let it be held where no one unworthy is honored; if its health you desire, let it be sought and attained where nothing need be feared. If it is life you desire, let it be acquired where no death brings it to an end. (Augustine, Ep. 127, 5; PL 33, 485-86)