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The great change was in the realm of objective fact. What had happened to my subjective universe was relatively unimportant.
By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.
For those who theoretically believe what in practice they know to be true - namely, that there is an inside to experience as well as an outside.
When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when "the sea flows in our veins ... and the stars are our jewels," when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?
But neither, if we are to remain sane, can we possibly do without direct perception, the more unsystematic the better, of the inner and outer worlds into which we have been born.
For Persons are selves and, in one respect at least, I was now a Notself, simultaneously perceiving and being the Not-self of the things around me.
This is how one ought to see, how things really are.
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