Part 1
Our need to change, to be made new, is constant; however, so is our resistance to change. The former is inseparable from the freedom it heralds, while the latter ensures the continuation of patterns that imprison the soul. Choose the latter, and living becomes dying, but choose the former and see how dying leads to Life.
Part 2
Practicing the presence is not for the aggrandizement of self, but rather for its sublimation; it is not for your glorification, but rather to ensure the continuing expression and substantiation of the living Word.