In a man’s life no desert ever springs up all of a sudden. First come patches of barren earth in a still fertile nature. It is an adult happening. To try to escape the desert means to remain forever a child. Today, people talk a lot about community and interpersonal relationships and the extreme need to "be with"... Should this end by stifling the attraction for the desert an essential element of human formation will be lost. Certainly, spiritual writing of all times has made it a central theme. It is dealt with in these pages to try and help souls understand what is happening when the desert first appears on their horizon... Unpublished manuscript written in 1960-1967. Translated from the French by Sr Kathleen England, o.s.u - 85 pages - 540 KB