Part 1
One of the hardest things to understand about the true spiritual path, and the struggles along the Way, is that the inner struggle we fear losing has already been won for us... if we will only (remember to) take our rightful place in the midst of that engagement.
Our task is to stay in the battle long enough to see through the wrong parts of ourselves that are producing both the negative states and the experiences these states produce.
If you will learn what it means to endure until the end (i.e., to stay awake to these states until they pass, which they must, being the mechanical forces they are), you'll find yourself on the next step of the path above you.
Part 2
Already present within us there is a Presence that is all we will ever know ourselves to be; that is, in truth the whole of our possibilities, as well as its full realization.

