So many of the things one thinks about and does and says are far from what is true, from what is natural. The more one can be at one with nature and at one with the deeper life, the more one realizes that what man does is to act continually against reality, not only when he does wrong or evil but even when he is doing good. If the animals can know this, man is even more capable of knowing it; and it is this knowledge alone which is the satisfaction of his life, not all the external things; as it is said in the Bible, "The spirit quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing.'