Idleness anywhere is a waste.

Everything vibrates in perpetual motion, without vacuum or inertia in the substance of things.

The human body and the spiritual body are based upon forces which constantly combine and work in sanctifying dynamism. Let us in turn be working parts of the Living Evangel, demonstrating that service is a condition of eternal health.

Wherever you may go, implant the luminous path of understanding. Set the example of good, listening to the laugher of the happy or drawing attention to the sobs of your unfortunate friends, creating earnings in the imperceptible treasures of the soul.

Retain as medals of merit the calluses on the hands which bless in serving, the fatigue of the muscles which help with enthusiasm, the sweat of the brow which collaborates in the happiness of all and the lacerations which remind you of the wounds suffered in the accomplishment of austere obligations.

Shelter and aid everyone, from the abandoned child, in need of protection and light for the heart, to the homeless pilgrim, the wandering guest of the trees by the roadside.

Let us pray in the constructive attitude, which does not relax.

Let us sing to the rhythm of happy perseverance.

Let us breathe in gasps of undiluted solidarity.

Charity transforms sacrifice into delight, fatigue into repose and suffering into euphoria.

Pure air dissipates unhealthful emanations — Clean water dissolves the detritus of the shadows; the morning sun dissipates the darkness.

A vacant head and empty hands betray an idle heart.

Be a companion of the dawn, waking up with the day in works of patience and sustenance, kindness and uplift.

The harvest of the Lord in the inexhaustible soil of time contains uptapped riches and opulent lodes. The man who writes and edifying page; sets a good example; rears a child; offers a consoling note; prepares a noble speech, or offers a gift in the seed bed of the Eternal Good, while laboring with Life for Unending Bliss.

Eurípedes Barsanulfo