'Take them!' He says.

But--you must _will_ to go there.

Like one preparing for a journey, a man must leave his home, renounce his projects, bid farewell to friends, to father, mother, sister, even to the helpless brother who cries after him,--yes, farewell to them eternally; you will no more return than did the martyrs on their way to the stake.

You must strip yourself of every sentiment, of everything to which man clings.

Unless you do this you are but half-hearted in your enterprise.
"Do for God what you do for your ambitious projects, what you do in consecrating yourself to Art, what you have done when you loved a human creature or sought some secret of human science.