BUILD FOR A HUNDRED YEARS
(In other words, do everything we do to the very best of our ability as it were meant to last for the next hundred years.)
BE PREPARED FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, AS WE KNOW IT, TO COME AT ANY MOMENT.
(In other words, don't be overly attached to anything we have built or the life that we have become familiar with because it could all be destroyed, taken away or changed in the twinkling of an eye.
Don't be dependent upon any outer things. Happiness, security, well-being, peace of mind; all of these things and everything else of real value is found within ourselves, not in any of our outer circumstances.)
THIS WORLD IS MEANT TO BE A ‘STEPPING OFF PLACE' INTO ANOTHER KIND OF REALITY ALTOGETHER WHERE WHATEVER WE INTEND COMES INTO BEING INSTANTANEOUSLY.
(This ‘Other kind of Reality’ will make unnecessary and entirely obsolete everything that we have built up until now. We can begin to enter into this other kind of reality even now, if we so desire and are willing to practice the Art that makes it possible. This is the essence of what the Spiritual Life is all about.
We don't have to, and ought not wait until the ‘End of the World’ or the end of our own life to begin to become familiar with the Life of the World to come, but rather, we ought to, and it behooves us to…)
DO ALL THREE AT THE SAME TIME!
https://substack.com/@stevenberger/note/c-83420820?r=1nm0v2
https://substack.com/@stevenberger/note/c-81247768?r=1nm0v2