a
King of Terrors, but rather as a mighty angel, holding with averted
face a wondrous lamp. By that lamp--hold it still nearer, O
Death--I would read the scripture of my life, and what I read in
that searching light, that would I take to heart.

Finally, there is a third condition of the spiritual life which I would
mention, and which comes nearer to the heart of the matter than
anything that has yet been said. Learn to look upon any pains and
injuries which you may have to endure as you would upon the
same pains and injuries endured by someone else. If sick and
suffering, remember what you would say to someone else who is
sick and suffering, remember how you would admonish him that
he is not the first or the only one that has been in like case, how
you would expect of him fortitude in bearing pain as an evidence
of human dignity. Exhort yourself in like manner; expect the same
fortitude of yourself. If any one has done you a wrong, remember
what you would adduce in palliation of the offence if another were
in the same situation; remember how you would suggest that
perhaps the one injured had given some provocation to the
wrongdoer, how you would perhaps have quoted the saying:
_"Tout comprendre est tout pardonner"_--"to understand is to
pardon," how you would in any case have condemned vindictive
resentment. In the moral world each one counts for one and not
more than one. The judgment that you pass on others, pass on
yourself, and the fact that you are able to do so, that you have the
power to rise above your subjective self and take the public
universal point of view with respect to yourself, will give you a
wonderful sense of enfranchisement and poise and spiritual dignity.
And, on the other hand (and this is but the obverse of the same
rule), look upon everyone else as being from the moral point of
view just as important as you are; nay, realize that every human
being is but another self, a part of the same spiritual being that is in
you, a complement of yourself, a part of your essential being.
Realize the unity that subsists between you and your fellow-men,
and then your life will be spiritual indeed. For the highest end with
which we must be ever in touch, toward which we must be ever
looking, is to make actual that unity between ourselves and others
of which our moral nature is the prophecy. The realization of that
unity is the goal toward which humanity tends.

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