| 1. |
No matter how suspicious the circumstances
appear, if it is not your business, avert your
mind and refrain from passing judgment even
mentally.
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| 2. |
If you hear the faults of others discussed, do
not let the poison soak into your mind. It may
be all pure gossip without foundation. For your
part think nothing.
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| 3. |
When you have done a good action, do not let
your mind rest on it. Think nothing of it.
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| 4. |
When others praise you, laugh it off. Think
nothing of the praise.
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| 5. |
When others betray your confidence and perhaps
get you into trouble - think nothing.
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| 6. |
When so-called friends on whom you have lavished
kindness desert you - think nothing.
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| 7. |
When you are despised, cast aside as worthless,
ignored, shelved after the devoted labour of a
lifetime, remember your Lord and Master was sold
for thirty pieces of silver … Think of that and
of naught else. Who are you that you should be
prized more?
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Desire Nothing:
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| 1. |
Count all this world’s goods as dross. They
cannot bring happiness and content, and they
generally harden the heart.
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| 2. |
The only free man is the one who desires
nothing. Let your prayer be: "Give me only Thy
love and Thy grace. Having these, I have
sufficient and nothing more do I ask".
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| 3. |
Do not desire riches which buy only material
things. All the really valuable things of life,
such as love, friendship, happiness,
contentment, are unpurchasable. A rich man is a
man who desires things, who has not poverty of
spirit.
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| 4. |
Neither desire that the hearts of others should
be wrapped up in you, that esteem and honour
should be yours, poor "mouthbreathe" which
satisfies no one.
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| 5. |
Do not desire health or sickness, a long life or
a short one, prosperity or adversity. Leave
yourself completely in the hands of God, Who
knows what will bring you to Heaven. Desire only
to do His holy Will, the end for which He placed
you on this Earth. |
