Stability requires that one stay present, attentive, aware, and ready to act. Stability requires fluidity and solidity.

In the churning waters of the river of life, keep your boat leveled and ready to turn, skillfully maneuvering, navigating through each day using all the tools and skills at hand—those learned and acquired and those intuitively grabbed onto—in order to maintain the fluidity of graceful navigation.

Stand firmly in your boat; yet even in the midst of the churning river of life be ready and relaxed enough to shift at a moment’s notice, staying in complete synch with each wave and the natural forces of the flowing river.

Stability is necessary if one is to advance with satisfaction. This is how to do the inner journey in the midst of the outer journey, meeting in stable agreement all that comes and all that must be encountered.

Fear not the journey, neither the past nor the future, but live each day with awareness. Trust your process. It is leading you where you need to go. Embrace it fully. Live conscious lives. Look for meaning. Accept what comes.

Every day is a new gift. Open to it with full participation knowing that just as you await it so does it await you with open arms, joyous and full of anticipation. Greet each day equally so and your journey will be fulfilling.

Let the self acknowledge progress as you step into a new day and proceed on your journey. Everything is meaningful. Begin there. Take that with you, keeping it in your conscious thoughts: everything is meaningful.

As above so below. As within so without.

Watch what you think. Watch what you say. Watch what you feel. Listen to your body. Sit in stillness. Let all projections melt away, all your enemies dissolve, all your emotions release to the air as you breathe and allow your spirit to enter you and reside in you today, freed of all that normally plagues you.

Reflect peace. Reflect calmness. Reflect compassion. Reflect loving kindness from the emptiness of self in deep contemplation and quiet. As above so below. As within so without.

The path to enlightenment leads first to the self. The first steps lead inward. The next steps go deeper inward. Beyond that lies the unknown self, the lost self, the forgotten self. This is the self you seek. This is where your spirit lies waiting.

Don’t stop now. To find this self is the most noble and fulfilling of all journeys for it will lead you to greater understanding of all that is; your place in the world will be made clearly available and your spirit will truly live as one with you for the rest of your days.

To live in constant companionship with this spirit self all the time is what you seek. The journey may seem difficult now, but soon light will come. Keep going.