A mark for the mind to fasten onto...

This is from here. It's the last sentence of chapter 5 on that page. The subject is the need for a mark to strive for. Glorifying God in thought, word, and deed, for instance. Or thinking from the Work rather than from life. Work aim in that sense:

For the mind, which has no fixed point to which it may return, and on which it may chiefly fasten, is sure to rove about from hour to hour and minute to minute in all sorts of wandering thoughts, and from those things which come to it from outside, to be constantly changed into that state which first offers itself to it.

Here is the larger contents page.

(From this page originally sent by Paul via email...)