Advice for her sisters
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta asked her sisters to follow these virtues. "God needs our poverty, not our abundance. These are means of being humble:
- Speak as little as possible about oneself
- Take care of one's personal matters
- Avoid curiosity
- Do not meddle in the affairs of others
- Accept contradictions with good humor
- Do not focus on the faults of others
- Accept reproach, even if undeserved
- Yield to the will of others
- Accept insults and abuse
- Accept feeling uncared for, forgotten, despised
- Be courteous and sensitive, even if someone provokes you
- Do not try to be admired and loved
- Do not hide behind one's own dignity
- Yield in arguments, even if one is right
- Always choose what is most difficult."
Source: "Heart of Joy: The Transforming Power of Self-Giving" by Mother Teresa, Servant Books, 1987
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