Twelve Stars for Perfection --St. John of the Cross

Twelve Stars to Arrive at the Highest Perfection:

Love of God, Love of Neighbor,

Obedience, Chastity, Poverty,

To Assist at Choir [Liturgy of the Hours],

Penitence, Humility, Mortification,

Prayer, Silence, Peace.

Any Appetite in the Soul Causes Five Harms:

The First, That it Disquiets it;

The Second, That it Confuses it;

The Third, That it Dirties it;

The Fourth, That it Weakens it;

The Fifth, That it Darkens it.

It is Great Evil to have More Eye for the Goods of God

than for God Himself.

Wisdom Enters Through Love, Silence and Mortification.

It is Great Wisdom to Know to Keep Quiet

and to Not Look at the

Sayings nor the Deeds nor the Lives of Others.

Cf. Salvador Dalí y San Juan de la Cruz unidos… por Cristo