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Once that contact is
established, you are unassailable. Externalize yourself! He told me
many things of this kind. You think I was consoled by his words? Not in
the slightest degree. I was annoyed. In fact, I thought him rather a
hypocrite; anybody could have spoken as he did! I was so disappointed
that I went to him next day and told him frankly what I thought of his
counsel. He said--do you know what he said?"
"I cannot even guess."
"He said: 'What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take
fifty of our current proverbial sayings--they are so trite, so
threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the
less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man
who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.
How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever
attained to inner harmony by pondering the experiences of others? Not
since the world began! He must pass through the fire.'"
"I had no teacher like that," observed Denis.


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