You must not judge things from an outer success or a semblance of defeat. We may say, and generally this is what almost always happens, we could say that the Divine gives what one desires, and of all lessons this is the best! For, if your desire is inconscient, obscure, egoistic, you increase the unconsciousness, the darkness and egoism within yourself; that is to say, this takes you farther and farther away from the truth, from consciousness and happiness. It takes you far away from the Divine. And for the Divine, naturally, only one thing is true, the Divine Consciousness, the Divine Union. And each time you put material things in front, you become more and more materialistic and go farther and farther away from full success.
But for the Truth, that other success is a terrible defeat… You have exchanged truth for falsehood!
To judge from appearances and apparent success is precisely an act of complete ignorance.
