Knowing that acedia and despair are first-chakra issues helps us to offer ways out of despair. Thomas Aquinas offered a way out when he observed that zeal (or heightened energy, clearly the opposite of acedia) comes "from an intense experience of the beauty of things." This is why, he taught, we call God "zealous" — because God knows the intense beauty of every being in the universe. "Love and also zeal are caused in us from beauty and goodness," Aquinas said, "for a thing is not beautiful because we love it, but we love it because it is beautiful and good. . . . God is called a zealot because through God things become objects of zeal, that is, intensely lovable."
— St. Thomas Aquinas, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh by Matthew Fox