Do not turn your back in despair!

Equipoised, serve time, as pre-determined by the flesh-born propensities. As soon as the term of sentence expires, you cross the ditch of creatureliness by casting off your corporeal shroud and enter into angelhood with powers to serve the Lord eternally. Thus do you attain to that holy communion where existence is unceasing adoration. Whatever be the circumstances and the objects under whose control the mind and the intellect become restless, guard yourself with patience by gradually increasing your efforts to master them ; if you do so you cannot fail of your purpose.
All the mental dispositions of content and happiness that people cultivate are temporal, impermanent, illusory. Always surrender yourself to the Lord and to Him alone ; aspire for ever without turning your back in despair—this is man’s most sacred duty.