How much affliction would disappear while still in its cradle if you could smile in silence.

How much sorrow would be forgotten, if you would pardon bitterness!

You ask for the Lord’s peace, but the Lord expects your cooperation also in the peace of others.

Reflect on the needs of your fellow man before you appraise the thoughtless deed. Many times, the aggressiveness with which he returns your affection is only the result of an ulcer in his heart, poisoning his mouth.

Aid him a thousand times before you reprove him one.

The swamp emits unwholesome gasses for want of hands to drain it, and the desert causes thirst and suffering for lack of the dew from the fountain.

Let compassion be converted into mute aid in your heart so that grief may be diminished.

Don’t feed the bonfire of evil with the tinder of irritation and hate.

Ever wait and love.

In silence the pruned tree multiplies its own fruits and the sky assaulted by the shadow of night discloses the glory of the heavenly bodies.

Remember Christ, our silent Friend.

Without vindications and without clamor, He wrote the immortal poems of forgiveness and love and gladness in the heart of the Earth.

Let us seek in Him our example in the daily struggle and by tolerating and helping today in the narrow path of human existence, we will reap tomorrow the blessing of silent light that will reveal to us the ways to Eternal Life.

Meimei