Course II - Teaching 4: Continuous Changes

The variability of the Universe is source of continuous changes, and man, that by his inner nature tends to be static at the point where he is, bitterly suffers because of these repeated changes.
Today a man loses his youth; tomorrow his material wellbeing, and so on. Friendships change, customs change, cities change. Need separates human beings that love one another, and when this is not by need, it is by death or indifference. A rich man lost his loved woman and went to see a saint to know his future, wishing to know whether the object of his love would come back to him; but the saint replied No; then the rich man said, “I have money, and any money available to get that which I wish”. Even so, he did not get it.
There are changes beyond human chances, and broken bonds never re-joined. For worldly men, these changes and abandonment should to be very bitter, but for a spiritual being these sacrifices become a source of really sweet consolation. Flesh still suffers by separation and changes, but this suffering becomes ecstasy, since what you had belongs to you, even if years had passed by, things had changed, and beings had died.