One can help others to understand, but one cannot make them understand. If someone thinks he is a chair or a table, he will remain such, but if he thinks he is a living being, he will feel that action is the object of life, that everything adjusts itself to that, and that every part is made for a purpose, as for instance the parts of a table or a chair. If we think of life and the whole world and see into it deeply, we shall find that we live and move and have our being for a certain purpose. A person may say it is the idea of a fatalist that everything must go through to its destiny. It is not the idea of a fatalist; it is the idea of a seer and of a mystic. The fatalist makes human beings out as chairs and tables; the mystic makes even chairs and tables living beings.