When life becomes difficult or painful, we feel that something has gone wrong, but pain and difficulty are all a part of life and cannot be avoided. Practice accepting all that comes your way and looking for the learning and healing that it can bring you.
Like the planets, feelings, instincts, and emotions must be kept in a constant rotating order. This way all is in order and problems of excess are avoided. If we keep our minds strong and clear, then the various aspects of our lives will keep to their proper order.
Any fragment of the mind apart from heart, spirit, human community, and the natural law of the universe is going against your own true nature. We sometimes confuse knowledge with knowing and forget the 10,000 things. Be open and curious, practice the “Don’t Know Mind”.
Living a life of sincerity and integrity is not any guarantee against bad luck or ugly surprises. But life has learned that these traits will improve the odds of success, that working with a natural merit and practicing a natural good can be two of the best rules one can live by.
Quote: Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.