Uncertain................................

You are doing the finest possible thing and acting in your best interests if, as you say in your letter, you are persevering in your efforts to acquire a sound understanding.  This is something it is foolish to pray for when you can win it for your own self.  There is no need to raise our hands to heaven;  there is no need to implore the temple warden to allow us close to the ear of some graven image, as though this increased the chance of our being heard.  God is near you, is with you, is inside you.  Yes, Lucilius, there resides within us a divine spirit, which guards us and watches us in the evil and the good we do.  As we treat him, so will he treat us.  No man, indeed, is good without God - is any one capable of rising above fortune unless he has help from God?  He it is that prompts us to noble and exalted endeavors.  In each and every good man "A god (what god we are uncertain) dwells."*
* Virgil, Aenid, VIII:353

-Seneca,  as excerpted fro Letter XLI,  Letters from a Stoic