Gifts of Heaven · Volume 3 · Chapter 373

Advice to a girl

28th March 1847

[1] I like to give them who thirst for it, to drink from the well at all times, since there is living water inside. The doctor is also only for the weak and the sick; for the strong and healthy do not need a doctor.

[2] Do you hear, My dear Pauline! If you want to get rid of your childish heart's stupid burden as soon as possible, then you have to be very serious about it. Because see, the "blacks" do not get out as easily as the "whites". That is, dark and disorderly thoughts stick much more powerfully in the heart and darken it and find the way out difficult, because they make the heart dark. The light thoughts, however, come out again soon and easily because they are light themselves and illuminate all corners and easily find their way out again, especially if they don't like it very much next to the "blacks".

[3] The human heart is a heaven for the black thoughts of the world. But for the heavenly light thoughts it is a hell – especially when the corners of the heart are still crammed with all kinds of worldly foolishness.

[4] If you, My dear daughter, want to make your heart pure so that it may be pleasing to the heavenly spirits to dwell in it for ever and ever, you must, like a wise innkeeper, banish from your house all the foolish, lazy, bad and useless servants, even forcibly casting them out; then sweep and clean all the chambers of your heart's house, so that the new arrivals from heaven may like the rooms of the inn and find a pleasant dwelling in it and henceforth remain in it.

[5] Therefore avoid every opportunity to approach what darkens your heart. But if someone visits you who is very harmful to you, stay far from his company, in your heart as well as in your body! And he will stay away! Because he comes, if he does, mainly because of you, everything else is an appearance and an empty pretext.

[6] I do think, My dear daughter, that will be a real "German" advice! Therefore, follow it honestly German in a German heart, and you will soon be in the position that befits a German girl!

[7] For behold, I prefer a real German girl to a thousand Roman monastery nuns!

[8] Do so, My dear daughter! But I will powerfully stand by you and help you always and forever! Amen.