XIX

SOMETIMES KNOWLEDGE IS confused with fear. A wise man can stop himself from an action for understanding that the action is intrinsically dangerous, but to a man too foolishly caught in his own moment, the reluctance of the wise man is deemed "fear." But it is even more foolish to feel anger towards the fool who confuses wisdom with fear than it is the act itself.

XVIII

AS SHAKESPEARE ONCE said, all the world is a stage. This statement is true; one can either be in the play, or sitting in the audience in observation. However, the audience is a very dark place, and very few people will ever be there with you; it is a lonely place. However, one who sits in the audience and watches the light of the play sees things which the actors cannot and can run onstage to help them when they are in need. This person has a constant hindsight for those who are too busy remembering their lines, making their images, and looking ahead.
SOMETIMES A RARE few who live on stage become curious of what is in the darkness of that audience, for they cannot see it. Therefore, they find themselves wandering away from the play trying to discover the darkness. Even a rarer few make it to the audience, and most that do run quickly back onstage in fright of the emptiness which they have seen. Those who do not, who wander but do not find the audience, often find themselves backstage, but they do not know this. They confuse the darkness of backstage for that of the audience, and they find it hard to get back. Most of those wanderers become lost forever. If one wishes to journey to the audience, which some do, find a man who has been there and listen to the tale of his journey. That is when the wise one must decide on being the actor or the watcher.
BUT, FROM TIME to time, the watcher must enter upon journeys from the audience to the stage. A man who lives in that darkness, watching the actors and waiting for when they need him, will sometimes need to take a short part in the play. You see, the watcher must usually obtain the trust of the actor in order to help the actor. For the man destined to be a watcher this should be unproblematic, but sometimes, on very rare occasions, the actor who needs help will not give their trust to a shadow, and the watcher must enter the light of the stage to show them what they are. They will not trust a shadow, no, they will only trust the one who holds their hand and walks beside them in their troubled times.

XVII

THE MYSTERY OF love is greater than the mystery of death, for death is simple and death is pure. For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world. Death is everywhere and it lies within every person. It is inexorable, merely capable of being postponed or deferred, and with it, as well the thought of it, it has hurt well as it has healed. But it is not a fact.
DEATH BORDERS UPON our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun, and without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

XVI

TO LIVE IS to be yourself. Do not let other people's ideas of who you should be determine who you are. Live.

XV

TEMPTATION IS THE most evil of obstacles that shall stop one’s journey throughout life. It is a monster which calls in a voice than can always be heard and never be rejected. It needs no more than to look at oneself, and one’s inner soul is brought into unstoppable corruption. Most monsters attack oneself with an assault or strike, however temptations attack oneself by becoming oneself, until you are the weapon fighting against yourself; beware of this.

XIV

DO NOT WISH to do so, do so. Do not think to do something, do it and think of it along the way. The only way for one to achieve anything is to commit oneself to it, and to think of it without thinking, and do it without even trying. Commit oneself 100% to the action, and the action will happen without thought or might. But with commitance, one must also understand the risk of failure, and of this complete placing forward of oneself being used against oneself. Remember: it is very easy to throw a man off balance when he is tossing himself at you with full force.

XIII

MAN TRIES TOO often to determine the ending of his own story that he does not see the glory of the future dead ahead of himself. Do not preoccupy yourself with manipulating the present to fit into your own goals idealized for the future, for in that there is no autonomy, sovereignty, or stillness. And without stillness, most all is lost.
HUMANS ARE HERE to understand themselves; when that is accomplished, the pieces of them will be placed together to create everything once more and fill the void of nothingness and eternity.

XII

KARMA CANNOT BE avoided, for karma is nothing more than an idea, and no idea can have evasive maneuvers placed against it. Karma is the doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect, the theory of inevitable consequence. Karma is based from the idea of the purity of nothingness and can, therefore, never be forestalled.

IF ONE WERE to try avoiding karma, one would be avoiding that which is within oneself, that which is, which is impossible because karma knows all. Therefore, if one spends one’s lifetime avoiding karma, then karma is still the major principle of fate for oneself! One must just be oneself and merely live life without thought of what is “good” and what is “evil,” but moreover with thoughts of understanding that, through your own life and truth, all that is meant to be will be.

XI

MEDITATION IS THE study of oneself in relation to all of creation. It is the art of perfecting stillness and understanding its mysteries and their intertwining importance with oneself and one’s truth. When one has perfected the art of stillness, questions may be asked and the answers shall be passed back into oneself like an echo; like the ripples in a calm pond bouncing back from the edge of the water to the point of creation.