Commentaries on "The Life Divine"

The whole creation, the whole universal manifestation appears at best like a very bad joke if it only comes to this. Why begin at all if it is only to get out of it! What is the use of having struggled so much, suffered so much, of having created something which, at least in its external appearance, is so tragic and dramatic, if it is simply to teach you how to get out of it - it would have been better not to begin at all. But if one goes to the very depth of things, if, stripped not only of all egoism but also of the ego, one gives oneself totally, withot reserve, so completely and disinterestedly that one becomes capable of understanding the plan of the Lord ... -p225