Joseph Jean
Lanza del Vasto
Servant
of Peace
(September
29, 1901 – January 5, 1981)
Don’t muddle everything by untimely agitation and cogitation.
Above all, don’t spend your time regretting the past. That is really a waste of time.
Don’t undertake anything by your own will alone; ask yourself
if the thing is willed, if it has
come in its own time. Question the
circumstances and read the signs.
In the hour of happiness, rejoice: in the hour of disaster,
reflect.
If you think other people are to blame for your failures, you
will learn nothing from your tribulations, but whoever can say “I was wrong”
can right his course.
It is wrong to rush things and wrong to shilly-shally, wrong
to force things and wrong to avoid them.
The wise man restrains himself for ten years, then acts like lightning
or lets his fruit fall gently when it is ripe.
--Lanza del Vasto, Make Straight the Way of the Lord, tr.
Jean Sidgwick
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