Spreading Serenity: The Visionary Who Brings Peace to a Troubled World

1. Put yourself at peace first and then you can put others at peace. The peaceful man is worth more than the wise man.

2. The passionate person turns even good into bad and easily believes everything is bad. The good and peaceful man always sees the favorable aspect of things.

3. He who lives in peace suspects no one. On the other hand, the disaffected and malicious is constantly stirred up in a thousand misgivings, and he has no peace either, and he does not leave those around him in peace.

4. Many times he says what he should not say and omits what he should do best. The thing is that he has lynx eyes to see the obligations of others and forgets his own duties.

5. So, first, be zealous with yourself and then you will be able to show your zeal directly towards your neighbor.

6. You know how to make excuses and gloss over your faults, but you don’t want to listen to someone else when they try to be honest with you. It would be fairer if you accused yourself and excused your brother.

7. If you want others to suffer you, you suffer others.

8. Notice how far you still are from true charity and humility; When you are with someone, they get angry or angry only at themselves.

Classes of pacifists

9. It does not require great virtue to deal with good and quiet people. This, naturally, pleases us all, as we all love peace and we prefer those who get along with us.

10. On the other hand, to live peacefully with intractable and quarrelsome people, or with malicious men or those who constantly contradict us, is a great grace and, on the other hand, something worthy of praise and which is typical of people of character.

11. There are those who are at peace with themselves and with others. And there are those who do not have peace themselves, and they do not let others have it. They are intolerable to those they live with, although much more so to themselves.

12. And there are, finally, those who maintain peace and ensure that others are in turn.

13. However, our peace in this miserable life consists more in very humble adversity than in not having it.

14. Anyone who knows how to suffer better, will have more peace. This is that he conquers himself and becomes master of the world and, therefore, a friend of Christ and an heir of heaven.