The peace that thus blesses one is not, I think, a merely
subjective mood, an imagined thing. It is, I believe, a real and
actual thing which is there. One's consciousness does not create
its impressions, one does not make for oneself the moral and
artistic ideas that visit one; one perceives them. Education is not
a process of invention--it is a process of discovery; a process of
learning the names given to things that are all present in one's
own mind. One knows things long before one knows the names for
them, by instinct and by intuition; and one's own mind is simply a
part of a large and immortal life, which for a time is fenced by a
little barrier of identity, just as a tiny pool of sea-water on a
sea-beach is for a few hours separated from the great tide to which
it belongs. All our regrets, remorses, anxieties, troubles arise
from our not realising that we are but a part of this greater and
wider life, from our delusion that we are alone and apart instead
of, as is the case, one with the great ocean of life and joy.
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