6467. From this it is evident that no one's life is ever intrinsically his own, so that no one left to himself can have any thought or will; for a person's life consists in the exercise of thought and will. There is only one kind of life - the Lord's - a life that flows into all people, but is received in varying ways. Indeed the way it is received is determined by the character a person has stamped on his soul through the life he leads in the world. This being so, forms of good and truths are turned among the wicked into evils and falsities, but among good people forms of good are received as forms of good and truths as truths. This may be compared to light flowing from the sun into objects. In them it undergoes all kinds of modification and variation in differing ways, as determined by the forms their constituent parts take, and it is thereby converted either into dismal or into cheerful colours, thus as determined by the character of the recipients. In much the same way, while he lives in the world a person stamps on the purest substances composing his interiors a character that determines the way in which the Lord's life is received. It should be recognized that the life received from the Lord is the life of love towards the entire human race.