Where good is evidence for edification and the good of all, cleanliness appears at the basis of all services.

So that it may produce with certainty, the field of farmland awaits the collaboration of the hoe against the growth of harmful weeds.

The laboratory demands sterilized instruments so that the remedy will fulfill the purpose for which it is intended.

The home awaits the daily chores for the preservation of the health of its inhabitants.

The book, truly noble, requires rigorous screening so that the prejudice of the coarse and vulgar terms in the text may be avoided. In the simplest measures of our daily life we notice similar needs.

Sound nourishment requires selection of the products.

Water needs filtration to be usable.

Clothing cannot be preserved without the cooperation of the laundry.

Public roads need culverts.

In the same circumstances, in the face of disagreeable positions of the soul which indeed are equivalent to disturbances and obscure ailments of the mind, we must know how to use the scouring powder of patience, clarifying rationalizations and renewing emotions, defining attitudes and controlling words in the certainty that all spiritual treatment requires cleanliness of thought.

Albino Teixeira