What happens is that we realize that we are but a speck of dust, a plaything of events outside our reach.
Nevertheless, we may at the same time discover that we have a certain liberty, as long as we live.
There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.
Hence, our dependence upon events is not absolute; it is qualified by our spiritual freedom.
Therefore, when we speak of resignation it is not sadness to which we refer, but the triumph of our will-to-live over whatever happens to us.
And to become ourselves, to be spiritually alive, we must have passed beyond this point of resignation.
Albert Schweitzer