The break with the world is in itself of course but a negative process.

This must attain a positive significance.
If the self breaks away from one aspect of life, it must identify itself more intimately with another.

This occurs when the individual sets out definitely on a course of life in antagonism to the evil in the world.
When this takes place, there arises within him a _new immediacy_ of experience.

Hitherto the things that were his greatest concern, and that appealed to him most, were the pleasures of the natural world.

But these things appeal to him no longer as urgent and immediate--but as being of a distinctly secondary character.