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To fear the Day of Judgement

To dread hell

To yearn for eternal life with all possible spiritual desire

To keep death daily before one's eyes

At every moment to keep watch over the actions of one's life

In every place to know that God most surely beholds one

To dash the evil thoughts that invade one's heart immediately upon Christ, as upon a rock, and to reveal them to one's spiritual father

To guard one's mouth against evil and vicious speech

Not to love much talking

Not to utter words that are foolish and provoke laughter

Not to love much or unrestrained laughter

To listen willingly to devout reading

To fall often to prayer

In our daily prayer to God to confess with tears and groans the wrong-doing in our past life

To amend these wrong ways in the future

To reject carnal desires

To hate one's own will

To obey the Abbot's commands in everything, even though he himself (which God forbid) acts otherwise, remembering always that command of the Lord's, ‘Do what they tell you, but do not do the things that they do’

To be unwilling to be called holy before one is so, but to be holy first so that it may be truly said of one