The same is with all things in life. Every moment in our lives is an opportunity which brings a benefit and blessing. And the one who knows how to be benefited by it, and how to be blessed by it, receives the benefit and the blessing. Everyone seems living and awake, but few souls really are living and awake. There are opportunities of benefit and blessing on every plane of one's life -- on the physical plane, on the mental plane, on the spiritual plane -- and every opportunity is invaluable. But often one realizes the truth when it is too late.