Part 1
We can’t be anxiously looking for real Life, and take part in its rebirth at the same time.
Part 2
United we see; divided we fall.
Even if your best efforts -- the work to be awake, and attentive to your inner life -- feels as if it's failed to produce any real result... nevertheless, persist: one day a Light that is in exact proportion to your labor will flood the soul, filling it with New Life.
Though we have yet to understand it, and yet must... if we ever hope to be the best we can be, is the following truth: our awareness of any yet-to-be perfected character in our consciousness IS NOT a judgment made by the Light that has made us aware of it.
Spiritually speaking, all relationships serve one purpose: self-knowledge. And self-knowledge, in turn, serves a single purpose: discovering the truth of oneself: an inner awakening that serves still a higher purpose: rebirth... the reconciliation, and fulfillment of all relationships.