January 30th
Book Two, Chapter  5
Of Self-Consideration

We may not trust too much to ourselves; for grace and understanding are often wanting to us.  There is in us but little light, and this we soon lose by negligence.  Oftentimes, we are quite unconscious how interiorly blind we are....You will never be interior and devout unless you pass over in silence other men's affairs, and look especially to yourself...Where are you when you are absent from yourself?...The soul that loves God despises all things that are less than God.  God only, the eternal and infinite, who fills all things, is the solace of the soul and the true joy of the heart.