"In grappling with the mystery of 'chance' we may be unable to render suitable explanation but we cannot deny that we are made aware of laws beyond the reach of human understanding. The more aware we become the more we perceive that there is a relation between right living and good fortune. If we probe deep enough we come to realize that fortune is neither good nor bad, that what matters is the way we take our (good or bad) fortune. The common saying runs: 'To make the most of one's lot.' Implicit in this adage is the idea that we are not equally favored or disfavored by the gods.
The point I wish to stress is that in accepting our fate we are not to think that things were destined thus or that we were singled out for special attention, but that by responding to the best in ourselves we may put ourselves in rythm with higher laws, the inscrutable laws of the universe, which have nothing to do with good or bad, you and me.
This was the test which the great Jehova put to Job." (Miller 226-227).
Miller, Henry. Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1957.
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