The ultimate goal would be, that the best of everything you get from out there is what you feel inside yourself, and then give of yourself to your activity, basically birthing and manifesting the seed of who you are, and your own essence – your own spiritual possibilities, and your own physical possibilities. It’s a whole other territory to learn how to work with this stuff right, and then be able to keep the value of that and build on it. One comparison: instead of constantly starting the same fire over and over again, that the fire of your life gets bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger, and all you have to do is just here and there add things to it, careful not to ever put it out or kick it aside, smother it, or anything like that, or walk away, and lose contact with the light and warmth and power of it. Be careful also never to add too much too fast causing it to lose its center, and no longer contained to start burning out of control, recklessly consuming everything in its path, leaving nothing behind but ashes, eventually burning itself out.
A Teacher once said:
I used to make the motif for my day be: I want to be a full fire by the end of the day, then go to sleep with the coals still simmering all through the night, and when I wake up in the morning, not having to go to any great lengths to re-create that the next day. All I have to do in the morning is just put a few things on it to get it really rolling again and through the day add a few more things to it, and enjoy the light and the warmth and the power of that all day long, as it grows bigger, and stronger through the day. And then, at the end of the day going to sleep so my instruments have time to rest and get replenished. Upon rising in the morning simply and easily picking up where I left off the previous day without it requiring any great expenditure of energy to really get rolling. The fire of my life remaining seamlessly constant day after day after day – a perpetual flame in my core radiating illumination, human warmth, and vital power.
