If thou desirest to have peace and true union, thou must set all the rest aside, and turn thy eyes upon thyself alone.
3. Thou wilt then make great progress, if thou keep thyself free from all temporal care.
But if thou set a value upon any thing temporal, thou wilt fail exceedingly.
Let nothing be great in thy eyes, nothing high, nothing pleasant, nothing agreeable to thee, except it be purely God, or of God.
Look upon as vain, all the comfort which thou meetest with from any creature.
A soul that loveth God despiseth all things that are less than God.
None but God eternal and incomprehensible, who fills all things, is the comfort of the soul, and the true joy of the heart.
Chap. VI.
Of the joy of a good conscience.
1. The glory of a good man, is the testimony of a good conscience. Keep a good conscience, and thou shall always have joy.