This document outlines a 10-point "Decalogue of Perfecting" which provides guidance on self-improvement, including diminishing one's own needs, intensifying work, uplifting ideas while repressing impulses, freeing the "man of the present" from the past, watching gestures and understanding others, persevering in noble study and recognizing life's lessons, judging oneself with pardon, speaking humbly and listening attentively, meditating while working and praying while serving, and trusting in love while worshipping daily obligations.

4. THE DECALOGUE OF PERFECTING
1.Diminish your own necessities and increase your concessions.
2. Intensify your work and reduce the period of unused time.
3. Uplift your ideas and repress your impulses.
4. Free the “man of the present” to the guidance of Jesus, and imprison the “man of
the past” who still lives within you.
5. Watch over your gestures, by understanding the actions of other people.
6. Persevere in the noble study, recognizing in life the sacred school of our assent to
God.
7. Judge yourself and pardon without discrimination.
8. Speak with humility and listen with attention.
9. Meditate while accomplishing and pray while serving
10. Trust in the Love of the Eternal and render daily worship to the obligations in
which He Himself has placed us.
André Luiz