Like creating a clay pot, or any other artistic endeavor, we skillfully and intentionally hone and craft our daily lives toward a stronger, whole, finished intent: wisdom, enlightenment, what have you.
If we embark on this process skillfully and methodically, ensuring we are doing our best to further the collective end, we will be satasfied and happy with the end result of our efforts.
If we embark on this process haphazzardly, and without effort or care-even in the most basic, situational areas of evocation-we will end up with something undesirable, unwhole, unsuitable. Instead of building upon the successes we have achieved, we will remain stagnant, forever held back fixing cracks and imbalences we instill in those few, discreet moments where we intentionally falter, and hinder our own progress. We breed our own mental and physical stagnation.
I wish to be successful in this lifetime: I will try to craft myself into something wonderful and beautiful, from this point forward.