May 5
Companions of the Way (Morning)Calm, whatsoever storms may shake the world.
RECTITUDE and Uprightness are the health and purity of a man's soul. A man is then right and straight; he is whole within himself, and all things are as they should be. There should never be any transporting imaginations; no discomposure of mind, for that is a failure in the government of a man's spirit. There ought to be no eagerness or inordinacy towards the things of this world. We should not be borne down by the objects of sense. There ought to be serenity and calmness and clear apprehensions, fair weather within; . . . an intellectual calmness; a just balance; an equal poise of a man's mind; no perplexity of soul; no confusion; no provocation; no disturbance; no perturbation. A man should not be borne off from himself, or put out of himself, because things without him are ungoverned and disordered; for these disturbances do unhallow the mind; lay it open; and make it common.
BENJAMIN WHICH- COTE