Nothing Is More Like A Wise Man

When You Have Received Him, Stir Up Your Heart To Do Him Homage; Speak To Him About Your Spiritual Life, Gazing Upon Him In Your Soul Where He Is Present For Your Happiness; Welcome Him As Warmly As Possible, And Behave Outwardly In Such A Way That Your Actions May Give Proof To All Of His Presence.

Never Be Hurried In Anything. Do All Things Calmly And In A Spirit Of Repose. Do Not Lose Your Inward Peace Even If Everything Seems To Be Going Wrong. What Is Anything In Life Compared To Peace Of Soul?

Strive To See God In All Things Without Exception. Do Not Smother Yourself...if You Start Smothering Yourself With A Host Of Cares And Longings And Wishes ... You Will Be Disabling Yourself From Serving God With All Your Heart.

Frequent Not The Company Of Immodest Persons, Especially If They Be Also Impudent, As Is Generally The Case; ...these Corrupted Souls And Infected Hearts Scarcely Speak To Any, Either Of The Same Or A Different Sex, Without Causing Them To Fall In Some Degree From Purity; They Have Poison In Their Eyes And In Their Breath, Like Basilisks. On The Contrary, Keep Company With The Chaste And Virtuous; Often Meditate Upon And Read Holy Things; For The Word Of God Is Chaste, And Makes Those Also Chaste That Delight In It.

Without A Doubt, One Of The Things Which Keeps Us From Attaining Perfection Is Our Tongue. When One Has Reached The Point Of No Longer Committing Faults In Speech, He Has Surely Reached Perfection, As Was Said By The Holy Spirit. The Worst Defect In Talking Is Talking Too Much. Hence, In Speech Be Brief And Virtuous, Brief And Gentle, Brief And Simple, Brief And Charitable, Brief And Amiable.