IMMANENCE

but is the core and secret of our personalities,^ the question " Why does this happen to me ? " assumes altogether a différent aspect. For when it is asked by the ordinary man (sufiering let us say from some mischance), it implies that something vast and virulent is " up against him," that something, or Some One, is seeking him out to destroy him ; as if there were two lives in the world — ^his own, and another which is hostile, alien, and the négative of îiis own. But if, escaping the dominance of this consdousness of separateness, he could reach only tentativdy to the belief that this is not the case ; that he is part of and wholly within the only Life that is, that he somehow is ii manifesting in a particular way; that, therefore, ail that happens to him happens, not in a world in which there are two sides set over against each other with a gulf fixed between, but in one imdivided and deeply harmonious Whole, — he would approach that point of vision, occupied by the chosen few, wherefrom it is seen that " ail is well," and would therefore accept whatever expérience came to him, knowing that when once assimilated it would prOve to be good.

The wheel tums, but whatevar it brings uppermOBt is well.i

Hâve faith. If that which mies the universe were alien to your seul, then nothing could mend your state — &ere were nothing left but to fpld your hands and be damned everlastingly.