Now stay on this good path. Don't let other people's wickedness stop you. Don't let their opinions or harsh words stop you. Don't even let your own pampered body stop you — let the flesh deal with its own complaints. If you can do this, then when your time to die comes, you'll be ready to leave everything behind. You'll care only about your mind and the divine part of yourself. Your only fear won't be that you'll stop living someday. Your fear will be that you never started living according to your nature. Then you'll truly be human, worthy of the world you came from. You'll stop being a stranger in your own country. You won't be shocked by daily events as if they were strange and unexpected. You won't depend anxiously on things outside your control.
Now in this good course, let not other men's either wickedness, or opinion, or voice hinder thee: no, nor the sense of this thy pampered mass of flesh: for let that which suffers, look to itself. If therefore whensoever the time of thy departing shall come, thou shalt readily leave all things, and shalt respect thy mind only, and that divine part of thine, and this shall be thine only fear, not that some time or other thou shalt cease to live, but thou shalt never begin to live according to nature: then shalt thou be a man indeed, worthy of that world, from which thou hadst thy beginning; then shalt thou cease to be a stranger in thy country, and to wonder at those things that happen daily, as things strange and unexpected, and anxiously to depend of divers things that are not in thy power.