Whether you live peacefully or not depends on you. If you are patient, you will be peaceful. But if you begin to return evil for evil, peace will depart, and God will leave the mob to serve justice. Where there is peace, there is God. His dwelling is peace.
Before doing anything, pray and think: would this be wise and pleasing to God?
For one who has acquired the love and habit of examining his surroundings, life in nature is beneficial; it saves him from petty, one-sided thinking and imparts to him a broader vision, integrity and depth.
Flee from suspicion like fire, for with it the enemy of the human race catches people in his net and strives to present everything in a distorted appearance - white is black and black is white, as he did in Paradise with our ancestors Adam and Eve.
A life spent with an unreproaching conscience and with humility brings peace, traquility, and true happiness. But wealth, honor, glory and high rank are often the cause of many sins and make this happiness uncertain.
