The Practice

You have to avoid thinking about the results. You remain focused on accomplishing the small work at hand - today, at this moment - to the best of your ability. To decide for yourself the work that needs to be done by you, and then to set about accomplishing whatever those ends may require. It is so easy to become distracted by so many things, such ancillary things. But the future happens so fast, and there are often only two distinct madnesses from which to choose. It is both incredibly simple and yet remarkably difficult, but in the end it is about the daily practice of opting for a personal reason above a general insanity, about actively choosing for yourself what matters most and then investing life in whatever that actually is, piece by piece and instant by instant.