Q. After all is it not a good plan for one to look for the cause of their sorrow or gladness in their own thought and action? A. Sometimes it so happens that it is not conditions which make sorrow. We allow them to make us sorrow. It is not only on their part that it depends, it depends upon both: a part of the sorrow comes from life, and a part one makes oneself. Therefore, if there is a response, one helps life to give a little joy, then life will give one a little joy also. But if one prevents life from giving a little joy then life becomes helpless.