List of points

The eyes! Through them many iniquities enter the soul. — What experiences like David's! — If you guard your sight you have assured the guard of your heart.

Why look around if you carry 'your world' within you?

Say to your body: I would rather keep you in slavery than be myself a slave of yours.

Let your will exact from your senses, by means of atonement, what your other faculties deny your will in prayer.

A strict fast is a penance most pleasing to God. But, what with one thing and another, we have become a bit too easy-going. There is no objection — on the contrary — if you, with the approval of your Director, fast frequently.

Silence is the door-keeper of the interior life.