The way to dissolve our resistance to life is to meet it face to face. Even if you resent the weather, when it is raining enjoy the wetness. Appreciate all things, look closely, open your mind, let go of resentment to things that you can do nothing about.
We are solely responsible for our own actions. There is no destiny, fate, or predestination, complete each action keeping the future as free and as open as possible. Live fully in the present moment and you will enjoy the best of what each day has to offer.
If you treat everyone with love and respect, everyone will love and respect you. If you compete with no one, the world will be grateful to you. If you are not guided by your ego and emotions and let yourself be guided by wisdom instead, you will remain virtuous.
By contemplating the forms that exist in nature, we come to understand the times and its changing demands. Through contemplation of the forms existing in society it becomes possible to shape the world. Contemplation is clarity within, quiet without, and desire is silenced. Thus, the world as ideas become manifest.
Quote: Use what talent you possess; the woods would be silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. – Henry Van Dyke