TAKE CARE AND FIGHT FOR YOUR HAPPINESS

A friend is a precious thing. Having an intelligent friend who reads, finds out text like this one and sends it on so that you can share his discoveries, is certainly the way to witness generosity and greatness of spirit in their highest degree:

"Live in Peace, even when there is Hurrying and Noise; remember all the Peace one finds in Silence. Try, to your utmost but without surrender, to be in good terms with Humanity.

Tell your Truth calmly and clearly; and listen to others, even the mediocre and ignorant ones - they have their own story. Avoid the Noisy and Aggressive people for they are an insult to the Soul.

Do not make comparisons so you will not become Vain or Bitter; keep in mind that there will always be better and worse people than you.

Enjoy your creations as much as your projects. Cultivate your labor even if it is a humble one for it is a real possession when luck is adverse.

Be cautious in your business dealings for the World is full of traps; do not
let it blind you to Virtue which is always present; life is full of examples of
Heroism.

Be yourself always and, above all, never pretend affection nor be cynical towards Love for, is spite of all dryness and disenchantment, it is perennial like the little weeds. Be serene when accepting the passing of years by not holding on to that which belongs to Youth.

Fortify your Spirit to face sudden Unhappiness, but have no worries for what did not occur for freight is only a fruit of Tiredness and Solitude.

If you follow a rigorous discipline, be easy with yourself; your are a
child of the Universe as are the trees and the stars, having all the right to be here; and, even it this is not quite clear, have no doubts that the Universe goes on rightly.

So, be in peace with your God, no matter how you conceive Him and no matter how intense your battles and aspirations - in the terrible confusion that one call Life - be in peace with your Soul for, in spite of all troubles, all lies and all broken dreams, this is a beautiful World.

Take care, and fight for your Happiness."



(Transcribed from text found in 1692 in the old Church of Saint Paul, Baltimore.)