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 entering into you-know-not-what.
Everything reaches its limits, constant expansion is not possible. Limitations should not always be seen as negative constraints; they are situations that you can take advantage of. Knowing the limits, we can sometimes test them. But before doing so insure you have sufficient resources.
Never hoard anything, share your possessions, the more you share the greater your abundance. The more you do for others the happier you will be because you are doing it for yourself. The less you hold on to the easier it is to give yourself to others.
The same principals apply to managing a household as to governing a country. From the courteous manner of one household a whole state can become courteous. With the spirit of sincerity and mutual love one is able to create a harmonious situation anywhere, in any circumstance.
Quote: The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.