Benedictine Wisdom 
Brief Rule of St. Romuald(0)
Sit in your cell as in paradise; put the whole world behind you and forget it; like a skilled angler on the lookout for a catch keep a careful eye on your thoughts. The path you follow is in the psalms — don’t leave it. If you’ve come with a novice’s enthusiasm and can’t accomplish [...]
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Turning your attention to God
Therefore my advice to you, friends, is to turn aside from troubled and anxious reflection on your own progress, and escape to the easier paths of remembering the good things which God has done; in this way, instead of becoming upset by thinking about yourself, you will find relief by turning your attention to God [...]
Self-knowledge is a step in knowing God
It is my experience that as long as I keep looking at myself, like Job, my eye is filled with bitterness. But if I look upward and raise my eyes to the help that comes from the divine mercy, then my former bitter vision gives way before the joyful sight of God. Then I say, [...]
Live with Christ
Let this be for you the form of life, brothers, this is the true discipline of a holy way of life: to live with Christ by having your thought and desire [fixed] on the eternal homeland, and in this troublesome journey to refuse no task of charity for Christ. Follow the Lord Christ upwards towards [...]