The Rules of Contentment

If we wished to gain contentment we might try such rules as these :

1. Allow thyself to complain of nothing (not even of the weather), knowing that everything is ordained or overruled by God.

2. Never picture thyself to thyself in any circumstances in which thou art not.

3. Never compare thine own lot with that of another.

4. Never allow thyself to dwell on the wish that this or that were otherwise than it was or is.

5. Never dwell on the morrow. Remember that it is God's, not thine. The heavier part of sorrow often is to look forward to it. ' The Lord will provide.'

Taken from E.B. Pusey. Click here to go to the source document.