Chapter 2: Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraph 5-6)

They should make their own the different ways of teaching which the Apostle Paul recommended to Timothy when he told him to make use of criticism, of entreaty and of rebuke. (From para. 5 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

To know how to guide someone appropriately, I must first put my habitual thought patterns aside, and listen to the other with an open heart.