And when he lifted up his face it seemed as if his eye was the nucleus of all light.
So he forgot the world and remained in the wilderness.

Each day he penetrated deeper into it, past abysses and roaring beasts.

The stones tore his feet, but he marked it not; snakes stung his heels, but he noticed it not.

Whence did he obtain nourishment?
What cleft in the rocks afforded him shelter ?--that is immaterial to him who lives in God.

Once he had regarded the world and its powers as hard taskmasters, and now they seemed to him to be as nothing, for in him and with him was eternal strength.