The body is the foundation

Most people spend their lives in the same circle. They react to circumstances, complain about the world outside, and do not see that the thought turning inside them keeps bringing back the same situations, only in a different form.

You do not leave that circle from above. The body is the foundation. If it is exhausted and neglected, no higher thought can hold. Every insight falls apart at the first sign of fatigue.

So you begin at the base: with discipline in what you take in, with measuring your own limits, with discarding the excess that drains your strength. This is not punishment. It is order.

You do not leave the circle from above.

Only when the body is calm and the mind is aware of its own patterns do you earn the right to look at the greater order.

Do not run from the pressure of matter. Matter is the field on which the worth of a thought is measured.

N. Ž.