Meditations VI.36

Asia, Europe, corners of the Universe: the whole Ocean a drop in the Universe: Athos but a little clod therein: all the present a point in Eternity:—everything on a tiny scale, so easily changed, so quickly vanished.

All things come from that one source, from that ruling Reason of the Universe,⁴³ either under a primary impulse from it or by way of consequence. And therefore the gape of the lion’s jaws⁴⁴ and poison and all noxious things, such as thorns and mire, are but after-results of the grand and the beautiful. Look not then on these as alien to that which thou dost reverence, but turn thy thoughts to the one source of all things.

• 43.See ii. 3; v. 8, § 5; xii. 26.
• 44.See iii. 2.