Determination

“There is a magic word which is the key to all mysteries, which opens the places in which are hidden spiritual, intellectual and material treasures, and by which we gain power over the seen and unseen. This word is ‘Determination.’ If we desire to accomplish a great object, we must learn to concentrate upon the same all our desires. Whether the object is good or evil, the effect is invariably proportionate to the cause. The power of will is omnipotent, but it can only be put into action by a firm and resolute determination and fixedness of purpose.”
—An American Buddhist, “The Cosmogony of the Old Testament,” The Theosophist (May 1884)