Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.

"Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.'"

No prayer is complete without presence.

If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

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