Chapter 23: The Need to Remove All Inclination to Useless and Dangerous Things
Chapter 24: All Evil Inclinations Must Be Purged Away
Containing Various Counsels for Lifting Up the Soul to God in Prayer and the Use of the Sacraments
Chapter 1: The Necessity of Prayer
Chapter 2: A Short Method of Meditation
Chapter 3: Invocation
Chapter 4: Representing the Mystery to Be Meditated to Your Imagination
Chapter 5: Considerations
Chapter 6: Affections and Resolutions
Chapter 7: The Conclusion and Spiritual Bouquet
Chapter 8: Some Useful Hints for Meditation
Chapter 9: Concerning Dryness in Meditation
Chapter 10: Morning Prayer
Chapter 11: Evening Prayer and Examination of Conscience
Chapter 12: On Spiritual Retirement
Chapter 13: Aspirations, Short Prayers, and Holy Thoughts
Chapter 14: Of Holy Communion, and How to Join in It
Chapter 15: Of the Other Public Offices of the Church
Chapter 16: How the Saints Are United to Us
Chapter 17: How to Hear and Read God’s Word
Chapter 18: How to Receive Inspirations
Chapter 19: On Confession
Chapter 20: On Frequent Communion
Chapter 21: How to Receive Communion
Containing Counsels Concerning the Practice of Virtue
Chapter 1: How to Select That Which We Should Chiefly Practice
Chapter 2: The Same Subject Continued
Chapter 3: On Patience
Chapter 4: On Greater Humility
Chapter 5: On Interior Humility
Chapter 6: Humility Makes Us Rejoice in Our Own Abjection
Chapter 7: How to Combine Due Care for a Good Reputation with Humility
Chapter 8: Gentleness with Others and Remedies Against Anger
Chapter 9: On Gentleness with Ourselves
Chapter 10: Attend to the Business of Life Carefully, but Without Eagerness or Anxiety
Chapter 11: On Obedience
Chapter 12: On Purity
Chapter 13: How to Maintain Purity
Chapter 14: On Poverty of Spirit in the Midst of Riches
Chapter 15: How to Exercise Real Poverty, Although Actually Rich
Chapter 16: How to Possess a Rich Spirit in Real Poverty
Chapter 17: On Friendship: Evil and Frivolous Friendship
Chapter 18: On Flirtatious Attachments
Chapter 19: On Real Friendship
Chapter 20: The Difference Between True and False Friendship
Chapter 21: Remedies Against Evil Friendships
Chapter 22: Further Advice About Friendship
Chapter 23: On the Practice of Bodily Mortification
Chapter 24: On Society and Solitude
Chapter 25: On Modesty in Dress
Chapter 26: On Conversation; and, First, How to Speak About God
Chapter 27: On Unseemly Words, and the Respect Due to Others
Chapter 28: On Hasty Judgments
Chapter 29: On Slander
Chapter 30: Further Counsels on Conversation
Chapter 31: On Amusements and Recreations: What Are Permissible
Chapter 32: On Forbidden Amusements
Chapter 33: On Dances and Other Permissible but Dangerous Amusements
Chapter 34: When to Use Such Amusements Properly
Chapter 35: We Must Be Faithful in Great and Small Matters
Chapter 36: Of a Well-Balanced, Reasonable Mind
Chapter 37: On Wishes
Chapter 38: Counsels to Married People
Chapter 39: The Sanctity of the Marriage Bed
Chapter 40: Advice to Widows
Chapter 41: One Word to Maidens
Needful Advice Concerning Some Ordinary Temptations
Chapter 1: We Must Not Trifle with the Words of Worldly Wisdom
Chapter 2: The Need for Good Courage
Chapter 3: On Temptations: The Difference Between Experiencing Them and Consenting to Them
Chapter 4: Two Striking Illustrations of the Same
Chapter 5: Encouragement for the Tempted Soul
Chapter 6: When Temptation and Delight Are Sin
Chapter 7: Remedies for Great Occasions
Chapter 8: How to Resist Minor Temptations
Chapter 9: How to Remedy Minor Temptations
Chapter 10: How to Strengthen the Heart Against Temptation
Chapter 11: Anxiety of Mind
Chapter 12: Of Sadness and Sorrow
Chapter 13: Of Spiritual and Sensible Consolations, and How to Receive Them