No matter where you are on your life’s path, either just beginning self-cultivation or practicing for years: as you practice you will become more awake and aware, you realize you are stepping further into groundlessness and the beginning of entering into you-know-not-what.
Use the cycles of life to establish a measure for your life and then arrange your plans to the units you have chosen. This way you will always be able to track your own progress. Remember, in all cycles after the zenith, there must be a decline.
Observe the world, trust your inner vision, allow things to come and go keep your heart as open as the sky. Reflect whatever appears without judgement. Whatever happens is all right, just treat yourself with compassion and kindness.
It is important not to get intoxicated by success. Do not skip any stages in your progress, go slowly step by step, as though hesitant. It is important to remain mindful, conscientious and consistent. This frees one of blind impulses. Only such calm steady progress, overleaping nothing, leads you to your goals.
Quote: Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength. Saint Francis de Sale