Part 1
Along the upper path there comes a time when the aspirant must make a choice: either he changes what he's been doing, pursuing in life -- in order to spend more time nourishing the needs of his soul -- or too soon he will watch, helplessly, as the effect of his withering soul begins to change his life for him, perhaps now too late for him to have any say in the direction these changes will take.
Part 2
True living is dying; true dying is living. Only the undivided mind is free of fear over what may or may not come, because -- by the grace of Love -- it dwells within a Changeless World that quietly witnesses all that changes.