When we feel inadequate or unworthy, we want to hold on to what we have, afraid of feeling worse than we do already. When we can start to let go and relax, we move past this poverty of holding on to things, both physically and mentally.
If you cease exercising your body, mind and spirit they stop growing and they begin to atrophy. We can only grow when we are challenged; so everyday find some way to challenge all aspects of yourself. You can find the way to do this by being open to the idea of growing.
We cannot attain clarity and simplicity by avoiding the world. Do your work, take care of others, practice virtue without expecting it of others and when you understand the higher truths, retain an ordinary manner. This is true clarity, true simplicity, true living.
Fellowship among us should be based on a concern that is universal. Lasting fellowship is not the private interests of individuals, but rather the goals of humanity. Fellowship in the open succeeds. If unity like this prevails, even difficult and dangerous tasks can be accomplished.
Quote: Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison