Swami Vivekananda

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21/09/2019 (Delivered at Los Angeles, California, January 4, 1900) 6. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is very difficult, but we can overcome the difficulty by constant practice. We must learn that nothing can happen to us, unless we make ourselves susceptible to it. I have just said, no disease can come to me until the body is ready; it does not depend alone on the germs, but upon a certain predisposition which is already in the body. We get only that for which we are fitted. Let us give up our pride and understand this, that never is misery undeserved. There never has been a blow undeserved: there never has been an evil for which I did not pave the way with my own hands. We ought to know ...