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Strive for balance in your spirit: be neither too happy
nor too sad. Strive for balance on your countenance:
never wear a frown. Balance in your words: be
neither too severe nor too soft. Balance in your prayers: neither
too fast nor too slow. (Writings 197)

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The fruit of spiritual balance is a pure and holy joy of
heart, a joy that can be experienced only by those
souls who have become indifferent to all things of
earth and to all self-concern. As a result, they busy themselves only
with the glory of God, and they already possess God on Earth in the
unruffled peace of their hearts. (Writings 238)

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We must not be anxious about tomorrow; instead, we
must rest peacefully in the hands of the Lord, who will
not permit us to lack anything. Today has troubles
enough of its own. (Writings 237)

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Even if God leaves us without any consolations, we
must not be too sad, but we must keep on praying and
hoping, humbly and gladly yielding mind and heart to
the divine will. (Writings 237)

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We must banish from our minds everything that can
disturb our peace. (Writings 197)

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Let us appear peaceful and serene even When our hearts
are in a tempest. (Writings180)

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We sometimes feel such a profound peace, such an
indescribable joy that we already seem to be
enjoying a foretaste of heaven. Then suddenly our
mind is in darkness, our heart grows lukewarm and languishes,