Lewis on Destiny

"The whole distinction between things accidental and things designed, like the distinction between fact and myth, (is) purely terrestrial. The pattern is so large that within this frame of earthly experience there appear pieces of it between which we can see no connection, and other pieces between which we can. Hence we rightly, for our use, distinguish the accidental from the essential. But step outside the frame and the distinction drops down into the void, fluttering useless wings." -- C.S. Lewis