9. What is Immortal about the Human Being?

The second is what could be called a complete surrender of the will to the ruling, present, and active world powers. So that, as it were, just as we bring our sensory perception to a standstill in the first, we must bring every inner stubborn will to a standstill in the second. Now there is a certain means by which one can develop the strength within oneself to make one's own will truly radically subject to the general weaving of the world. This is when one acquires a completely new attitude towards what we call our destiny. How do we experience our destiny in our ordinary existence? Well, we experience our destiny in such a way that we regard what happens to us as fate in good and evil as something that happens to us, that we encounter it with sympathy or antipathy, so that we really see what is, so to speak, what befalls us, what we incur, we see as something that comes to us; we stand outside of it, we see ourselves as the I-, the self-being, on which fate has an effect, to which it comes.