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If someone mistreated him unintentionally, or even intentionally, he felt the insult was directed to someone else.
He led his life enjoying peace of mind and stability of thoughts. Everyone was holy and pure in his eyes. He felt he was the only one who needed to acquire the purity of heart and the flowing love.
He loved his cell very much. He felt it was his mother, throwing himself into her arms. It maintained his secrets. He regarded it as a spiritual lab, a place that contained all his spiritual experiences, echoed with all his sighs and strong self-reproach. This cell witnessed the light emitting from his hands and the many angels and saints who visited him.
He considered that the ordinary level was to forgive others for mistreating us, but the spiritual level would qualify us to find excuses for them. In defending others he never lied, exaggerated, or sought far-fetched probabilities, but he sought the good aspects in the character of the accused person and focused on them. He mentioned numerous probabilities to justify what he had committed. In all that, he never hesitated to learn from the mistakes of others. As for his administration in peace, he never participated in a dispute, or caused pain to others.
It is said that virtues are lost if they become well known. They also agreed upon withdrawing and leaving him alone whenever he was caught up like this.
