I am aware that my future state here, and hence hereafter, will greatly depend upon the steps I now take, and therefore I would do nothing unadvised or hastily.

I would not sacrifice eternal for worldly life.

At present I wish to live a true life, desiring nothing external, seeing that things external cannot procure those things for and in which I live.

I do not renounce things, but feel no inclination for them.

All is indifferent to me--poverty or riches, life or death.