Compassion, Love, Bliss, Truth; and it may literally he said of him that he has ceased to be a personality, for all the personal elements have been extinguished, and there remain only qualities and principles entirely impersonal. Those qualities are now manifested in the man’s life, are henceforth the man’s character.
Having ceased from the protection of self, and living constantly in compassion, wisdom, and love, he comes under the protection of the highest Law, the Law of Love; he understands that Law, and consciously co-operates with it; with it; yea, is himself inseparately identified with the Law.
“Foregoing self, the universe grows I”;
and he whose nature is compassion, wisdom, and love cannot possibly need any protection; for those Principles themselves constitute the highest protection, being the real, the divine, the immortal in all men, and constituting the indestructible reality in the cosmic order. Neither does he whose very nature is Bliss, Joy, Peace need to seek enjoyment. As for competing with others,
