I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.

The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

In the desert you become a discoverer. You discover your soul, which had been submerged in vain pursuits, which had been lost in the coils and toils of modern life. You discover your kinship with nature and man, which is evoked by the naturalness and the gentle humanity of the natives of the desert, and you will also discover God.