L. W. Rogers

We may be either the suffering slaves of nature or the happy masters of her laws.

Today we have a friend. Tomorrow he will be an enemy and we do not know why.

In the darkness our progress would be slow and painful and our bruises many.

Why does death bring misery? Chiefly because it separates us from those we love.

Why do we have enemies from whose words or acts we suffer?

Why does death bring misery? Chiefly because it separates us from those we love.

Why do we suffer in life? Because in the scheme of nature we are being forced forward in evolution and we lack the spiritual illumination

Usually we do not even see or suspect the presence of trouble until it suddenly leaps upon us like a concealed tiger. One day our family circle is complete and happy. A week later death has come and gone and joy is replaced with agony.

Today we have a friend. Tomorrow he will be an enemy and we do not know why.

The thing we lack is the spiritual illumination that will enable us to look far and wide, finding the hidden causes of human suffering and revealing the method by which they may be avoided; and if we can but reach illumination the evolutionary journey can be made both comfortably and swiftly