Mirror of the Honesty of Life

...Avoid singularity. Be content with common things. Know that the flesh must be fed and vices must be extinguished, but when something is set before you as if provided for a rich man, accept it; yet let it be in your mind and spirit and in your will that it is better to offer it to another than to keep it.

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Set a measure to your prudence, so that you do not seem wise to yourself always and everywhere, and in all your works, fear that you might exceed in something.

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Here the blessed Job says: "I feared all my works, knowing that you do not spare the sinner" Job 9:28. When you have come to your bed tired, compose yourself by lying down honestly. Do not lie on your back, nor by lifting your knees join your heels to your shins. But if the pomp of lust strikes you, remember your Beloved placed upon the bed of pain, and his whole bed turned into infirmity. Say these things in your heart: "My God hangs on the gibbet, and I shall give myself to pleasure." Thus, with the name of the Savior invoked from your whole heart, groaning and often repeating this name of salvation, the agitation of the flesh will cease. Repeat the psalms within yourself until sleep occupies you, so that in your sleep you dream that you are saying the psalms.

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When you have risen for the vigils, praise your Creator with all your strength, and for the praise of your Creator and Redeemer, exalt your voice in the height.

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Finally, the most pure love of Christ...