For the most part, however, we close our minds against the knowledge, which may be compared to a bitter medicine, that suffering is essential to life, and therefore does not flow in upon us from without, but that every one carries about with him its perennial source in his own heart.
2, 3] Baina gehienetan uko egiten diogu sendagai mingotsaren parekoa den ezagutzari, hau da, sofrimendua bizitzari esentziala zaiola eta horregatik ez dela kanpotik gugan jarioka sartzen, baizik bakoitzak horren iturri agortezina bere barruan daramala.