1. Examine your inner self, what the weaknesses are that you need to face and the virtues that you can call upon to do so.
2. Move forward with indifference toward the reveries of the landscape. All of this, too, shall pass.
3. Nothing is achieved without total dedication to one's vision.
4. The enemies are both outer and inner. Concentrate on your inner enemies. The outer enemies are mirages that come and go. Inner enemies are the ones that truly block your progress.
5. You possess the energy of creation, which always seeks beauty, art, and the science of always being open to learning, to being wrong, to finding true knowledge, which is also beauty and art.
When my human side falters, I must rest. I must withdraw.
One makes things and it takes a very long time before one may look back and in retrospect, make a clear and honest assessment. In the midst of the battle, it is impossible.
6. This world is the realm of the raw materials of the alchemical work. Sometimes it is all too much, even for the strongest and the bravest. You can't heal everyone, write the most beautiful treatises for nobody to read, collect the most interesting books that you have no time for.
This life is a continuing cycle of night and day, death and rebirth, darkness and light, suffering and pleasure. It's a giant washing machine and sooner or later you will get caught in the rinse and spin.
It's exactly like being in a bad dream, twisted in a thousand knots, desperately looking for the wallet or the car that someone stole from you, aghast, watching helplessly as the one you love dies... and just as the zenith of anguish, desperation is reached, your eyelids flutter open.
While you are in that rinse and spin cycle, caught in the labyrinth of confusion, contradiction, exhaustion... you believe it's forever.
YOU BELIEVE.
Therein lies the rub.
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