We get only that for which we are fitted. Let us give up our
pride and understand this, that never is misery undeserved. There never has
been a blow undeserved: there never has been an evil for which I did not pave
the way with my own hands. We ought to know that. Analyse yourselves and you
will find that every blow you have received, came to you because you prepared
yourselves for it. You did half, and the external world did the other half:
that is how the blow came. That will sober us down.
At the same time, from this
very analysis will come a note of hope, and the note of hope is: "I have
no control of the external world, but that which is in me and nearer unto me,
my own world, is in my control. If the two together are required to make a
failure, if the two together are necessary to give me a blow, I will not
contribute the one which is in my keeping; and how then can the blows come? If
I get real control of myself, the blow will never come."
- Swami Vivekananda, Talk in Los Angeles
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