Examen = daily bookkeeping for business of eternal life, beware devil that ties your tongue, examine courageously, General = defense & Particular examen = attack, learn from past, keep asking for light, replace predominant defect with definite virtue, pay your debts to God's grace with tears of love-sorrow, be faithful in little things then bigger, listen to Holy Spirit, use days of recollection for thorough examen, always end with Act of Love.  

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from The Way (1934), by Josemaría Escrivá