In different ages and in different countries people have adopted methods such as looking at random in the scriptures to find the answer to their question, or consulting the cards, or looking in the teacup and such superstitions: anything that suggests something to them, such as seeing a black cat or a turtle or a snake, or hearing the sound of a certain bird that predicts something. The mystic does not need all this. Everything all the time is answering his questions. Life is such a mystery that there comes a time when we begin to see that every action, everything that is going on, is an answer to that which is going on within ourselves.