Advice from above

Update: I’ve removed the screenshot of Francis Fernandez’s book to ensure that I don’t commit copyright infringement...

This is today’s reflection (quote below) from Francis Fernandez’s In Conversation with God Vol. 2.
I wish for internal peace. I will heed the call for temperance. I will not stoop down to the level of the sly, manipulative, and evil.

“...we need to stamp out any kind of antipathy or animosity...fight against any roughness or sharpness of character...selfishness...These are serious obstacles to friendship and the apostolate.”