Jesus was not an Altruist. No wonder she felt empty.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html
This explains it all:
Rather than simply giving all credit to God, Gottlieb observes, she agonizes incessantly that “any taking credit for her accomplishments — if only internally — is sinful” and hence, perhaps, requires a price to be paid. … For Teresa, “an occasion for a modicum of joy initiated a significant quantity of misery,” and her subsequent successes led her to perpetuate it.
The worst trick the devil ever pulled was to convince “christians” that to have a sense of self is wrong. Jesus was incredibly selfish, in the “Objectivist” way – he lived to fulfill HIS destiny, period. He didn’t have any problem rebuking his closest disciple as “satan” for trying to sway Him off the path that He had chosen for His life. And He didn’t have a problem being proud of who He was, either – because that’s who He was created to be.
The absence of self DOES make you go crazy. Whether Mother Theresa was miserable and nuts is something I have wondered about quite a bit the past year the more I’ve studied Ayn Rand’s work…to read now that she WAS, is not at all a surprise to me. Of course she was – that’s what happens when you give up yourself for anything or anyone! If you have no self and refuse to love whatever self you do keep, how can you possibly get any joy out of helping others?!
Minus the fact that Ayn Rand was an athiest (though I have yet to find in all of her writings where she explains her view of where the universe and man actually came from, and I’m curious to hear her “logical” explanation that is sans Intelligent Design), I believe Jesus and Ayn would have gotten along very well. I’m working on a new philosophy which makes that work. =) It’s a challenge…but life is much more rewarding living by the virtue of selfishness.