Whatever happens in the world is as natural and common as roses blooming in spring or fruit ripening in summer. Sickness and death are the same way. So are gossip and betrayal. All these things that make fools happy or sad are just ordinary parts of life. Whatever comes next always follows naturally from what came before. You must see the things of the world not as random separate events, but as a connected pattern that fits together in order. In the world's events, there is not just one thing after another. There is a beautiful connection and harmony.
Whatsoever doth happen in the world, is, in the course of nature, as usual and ordinary as a rose in the spring, and fruit in summer. Of the same nature is sickness and death; slander, and lying in wait, and whatsoever else ordinarily doth unto fools use to be occasion either of joy or sorrow. That, whatsoever it is, that comes after, doth always very naturally, and as it were familiarly, follow upon that which was before. For thou must consider the things of the world, not as a loose independent number, consisting merely of necessary events; but as a discreet connection of things orderly and harmoniously disposed. There is then to be seen in the things of the world, not a bare succession, but an admirable correspondence and affinity.