سبعة مفاتيح للتغلب على الأزمة وعدم الموت في المحاولة - المفتاح 7

المفتاح 7: اعثر على مكانك الأبدي في الزمن

كل يوم وكل دقيقة، يتقدم وعينا في الزمن. ومعه تتحرك الأماكن التي يمر بها هذا الوعي. وهكذا، فإن الأبعاد الثلاثة للمكان والبعد الرابع للزمن تشكل سجننا الشخصي، الذي لا يمكننا الهروب منه أبدًا. مهما ابتعدنا في رحلتنا — حتى إلى أبعد أطراف الكون — فإننا نسافر دائمًا داخل النفق الذي تشكله هذه الأبعاد الأربعة.

فهم المصريون هذا المفهوم جيدًا وصوروه في مقابرهم. على سبيل المثال، كانت أغطية التوابيت مزينة بالنجوم لتمثيل السماء. وتم تمثيل الأرض برمز الأرض. تم تصوير أبناء حورس الأربعة، أو الأبعاد الأربعة، على أنهم يحيطون بالتابوت الذي نعيش فيه وفيه في نفس الوقت. نحن نعيش في تابوت، مدفونين أحياء في الأبعاد الأربعة.

هذه نظرة متشائمة إلى حد ما، ولكن...

ولكن هذا هو أيضًا تابوت أملنا. أعطاه المصريون القدماء اسمًا هيروغليفيًا مشابهًا للاسم الذي استخدموه لوصف البيضة لأن التابوت كان المكان الذي تُحتضن فيه أرواح الطيور. 

أوضح مدرس مصري أننا جميعًا جميع البشر حوامل في هذه الحياة. لدينا طفل صغير داخلنا. نحن آباء لأنفسنا — لذلك الكائن الجديد الذي ينضج شيئًا فشيئًا ويبدأ في رفرفة جناحيه بحذر. لذلك، نحن مسؤولون عن حياة هذا الكائن الصغير. إنه لا يزال صغيرًا، لكنه سينشر جناحيه ويطير عاليًا خارج التابوت الذي هو أنفسنا. وهكذا، كأكفان وطيور، ننمو حتى نغادر العش.

... لنتجاوز الزمان والمكان - لنخرج من التابوت - يجب أن نرعى طفلنا الداخلي. يجب أن نعمل بلا كلل في اللحظة الحالية، ونؤدي واجباتنا والتزاماتنا، لأن هذا الجهد سيمكن طفلنا الداخلي. يجب أن نعمل بلا كلل يومًا بعد يوم من أجل جميع الأطفال الداخليين، حتى يتمكن المئات والآلاف والملايين منهم من مغادرة توابيتهم.

”لقد خرجت من مياه النهر. بعد أن قدمت قربانًا من البخور، واصلت طريقي عبر أشجار الأكاسيا على ضفاف النيل لأصبح طفلاً.“

”يا رب الأرضين العزيز، الذي تسكن في وفرة بين اللازورد، احفظ الأطفال في أعشاشهم حتى يصلوا إليك.“ 

[كتاب الموتى المصري]

إيجاد مكاننا في الزمن يعني الاستقرار فيه والعيش بفرح في الحاضر مع الأمل.

احتفلوا باليوم بفرح.

حتى يجلبوا العطور والروائح العطرة،

باقات من زهور اللوتس لأطرافكم

ولصدر حبيبكم،

الذي يسكن في قلوبكم، جالسًا إلى جانبكم.

دعوهم يعزفون الموسيقى لكم.

ابتهج واترك كل همومك وراءك

حتى يأتي اليوم الذي نعتزل فيه

إلى الأرض التي تحب الصمت.

[شعر الحب من مصر القديمة]

Seven Keys to Overcoming the Crisis - Key 5 Seek Perfection

 

Key 5: Seek Perfection

Before seeking anything, we must first define it to avoid confusion and wasted effort. Absolute perfection, as a final and flawless state, does not exist—nothing and no one is perfect, for imbalance and evolution are inherent to the nature of all things. Perfection, in this sense, is merely an imagined goal—a beautiful illusion.

However, there is such a thing as reasonable or attainable perfection. This differs from perfectionism, which is an excess that leads only to vanity or futile effort. On the opposite end lies negligence—the tendency to “let things slide”—a form of apathy and laziness that achieves nothing. Between these extremes lies balance: reasonable perfection.

Hindu philosophy describes the three gunas, or fundamental qualities present in all existence: Tamas, Rajas, and Satwa.

• Tamas represents inertia and negligence—the lowest state of energy and activity, marked by melancholy and passivity.

• Rajas signifies intense activity and drive, even aggressiveness—a state of restless energy and constant motion.

Human beings oscillate between these two forces, like yin and yang. After a period of depression or inertia, we often react with frantic activity or rebellion, throwing ourselves into action—only to return, once exhausted, to the opposite pole of inertia.

Imagine someone overwhelmed with work and stress: coffee after coffee, meeting after meeting, collapsing into bed each night only after taking a sedative, then waking up exhausted and reaching again for stimulants. This person lives in a state of Rajas—driven by perfectionism, chasing success and recognition, striving for a summit that never seems to appear.

Their family suffers, their friends feel neglected—but above all, their soul suffers. Eventually, a crisis comes. They question everything, recognize the futility of their pursuits, and fall into depression and inertia. In a moment of rebellion, they decide to abandon everything—their job, lifestyle, friends, and habits.

But such drastic change is unrealistic and bound to fail, returning them once again to the endless cycle of Rajas and Tamas.

If, instead, they meditate deeply and begin to adjust their life gradually and consciously—seeking harmony between means and ends—they may reach what Hindu philosophy calls Satwa: a state of dynamic, conscious balance. This is the middle way, or reasonable and attainable perfection—far from the extremes of excess and negligence, and distinct from the illusion of static, absolute perfection.

To seek harmonious perfection is possible. The method for achieving it is philosophy—the love of wisdom.

Seven Keys to Overcoming the Crisis and Not Dying in the Attempt V - Key 4

 

KEY 4: Don't waste your time or energy

This well-known equation above presents us with a fundamental relationship: that of time and speed on the one hand, and that of mass and energy on the other.

Applied to human beings as a general concept, another factor must be added: we are open systems that constantly interact with our environment. From birth, we are conditionally given a certain amount of mass, energy, and time, which are relatively constant unless we alter them with our own clumsiness: shortening time, increasing mass, or wasting energy on useless tasks.

We can observe changes in our vitality throughout our lives. As children, we have a lot of time and energy, but little mass: little physical, social, or intellectual mass. We have physical, emotional, and social energy to spare; time seems endless, the days are long, and the summers are infinite.

In old age, the opposite occurs: physical mass decreases, bones become fragile, physical energy is depleted, and social energy and emotions also weaken, becoming more fragile or hardened. The days pass quickly and the years rush toward inevitable death.

This strange relationship between mass and energy is accompanied by a change in the perception of time.

We perceive this unconsciously, and as we move toward adulthood, we try to compensate for it with physical exercise, diets to maintain body mass, energy supplements, or breaks in contact with nature. However, time continues to shorten, so we increase the speed of our tasks and use more energy. Inexorably, time continues to accelerate, until we reach a point where we can no longer contribute more energy, especially if we have wasted it before.

This is both a scientific and a vital equation from which we cannot escape. It has no solution, but it does have an end: death. In this game, we always lose.

So what can we do? Change the playing field; play the game on another terrain.

Let's look at the possibilities of movement of the body, compare them with those of the heart and the speed of the mind. Some planes have limitations; others are more free and open. Our personal equation of time and energy has little chance of success on the material plane, but we can rise above it: meditate, contemplate life from a panoramic perspective, as if we were on top of a mountain. Let's imagine that we are that mountain, calmly observing life in the valley. We will see that time seems to stand still; and that is because we have changed planes.

Let's look at the confusion of problems that surrounds us, the tangle of causes that brought us here, and the many possibilities that have not yet materialized. Let's take a step back, upward, toward the best of ourselves, toward the stillness far from passions. Then we will see that tangle become a line, and we will distinguish special marks: moments when someone helped us, experiences that transformed us, or lessons that revealed something profound. That apparent confusion takes on meaning and becomes a chain of essential events that led us here. The rest is just background noise.

Beyond that daily personality that suffocates and agitates us, there is another consciousness: an open, broad vision, from a place where we can breathe and the oppression in our chest that we feel every day disappears. That new consciousness allows us to look with confidence at what surrounds us and what lies ahead. There is no rush; we are outside of time. It is another time, a time that does not run, but remains.

If we are able to remain in that state of consciousness, time will cease to be lost, because it will be essential inner time. We will act at the right moment, in the right direction, without haste but with the accuracy of truth.

Then energy will be infinite, because it will have no limits or deadlines; it will flow freely and be applied where it should, without being dispersed in futile efforts. Inexhaustible, it will make our actions unaware of fatigue, especially mental and spiritual fatigue, which is the most dangerous. On the contrary, we will know that we are working under the protection of a mind greater than our own, by a higher energy. In calm and peace.

سبعة مفاتيح للتغلب على الأزمة وعدم الموت في المحاولة IV - المفتاح 3

 سبعة مفاتيح للتغلب على الأزمة وعدم الموت في المحاولة IV

المفتاح 3: القدرة على البعث

في المفتاحين السابقين، تحدثنا أولاً عن تحديد كياننا الداخلي، وبالتالي تغيير الطريقة التي نرى بها أنفسنا والعالم من حولنا، أي تغيير منظورنا، وثانياً، معرفة الأشياء التي تعتمد على أنفسنا وتلك التي لا تعتمد، ومواجهة معركة الحياة ومصائبها بالطريقة الوحيدة الممكنة: كمحارب، مع العلم أننا كنا دائمًا، وما زلنا، وسنظل، نتعلم ”الاستمتاع“ بهذه المعركة المستمرة التي هي الحياة البشرية، والتي هي أولاً وقبل كل شيء معركة داخلية، معركة لكي لا نصبح منحرفين وأنانيين، مخادعين، جبناء، وفي النهاية أشرار.

لكن نحن حتمًا خاضعون لدورات، نهارًا وليلاً، نومًا ويقظة، شبابًا، نضجًا، شيخوخة... وموتًا.

كل شيء في الطبيعة يشير إلى دورات لا نهائية: التحلل وإعادة البناء، تبادل الكتلة والطاقة، مدارات الكواكب، دورة كريبس في علم وظائف الأعضاء، الشهيق والزفير، المدارات الذرية، ازدهار الأوراق وسقوطها في الخريف، الربيع والشتاء، وهكذا دواليك، دورات تتكرر مرارًا وتكرارًا، مثل الموت والبعث.

جرب ذلك، حاول أن تجد شيئًا واحدًا على الأقل يظل دائمًا كما هو، أو يستمر في اتجاه واحد، أو لا يتأثر بالزمن، شيئًا واحدًا فقط، من فضلك. كما سترى، حتى غباء الإنسان ليس دائمًا أو لانهائيًا، على الرغم من أن المرء قد يعتقد أحيانًا عكس ذلك، فكل شيء ينتهي أو يتحول إلى شيء مختلف. لاحظ أن لا شيء فيك يبقى على حاله، وأن الدورات تتجلى أيضًا، ليس فقط مع التغيرات في العمر، والتغيرات الهرمونية، والتغيرات اليومية، وما إلى ذلك، ولكن أيضًا في دورات المزاج أو حالات الذهن.

لماذا يجب أن تكون الحياة والموت مختلفين؟ قال أفلاطون أن الأحياء يأتون من الأموات، وعلى الرغم من أننا قد لا نعرف بالضبط ما قصده، كقاعدة عامة يمكننا أن نفهم أن كل شيء يتحول، وبنفس الطريقة التي نفهم بها بوضوح أن الحياة ليست أبدية، يمكننا أيضًا أن نتصور أن الموت ليس أبديًا.

في مصر القديمة، كان الإله أوزيريس يمثل هذه الفكرة بالضبط. كان هو الذي أعيد إلى الحياة بعد أن مر بكامل عملية الموت والتحنيط. طوال تاريخ مصر، كان رمزه يمثل لجميع البشر القدرة على التجديد، والعودة إلى الحياة، مثل مياه النيل، التي عادت مرارًا وتكرارًا لري حواف الصحراء العطشى، مما أدى إلى ازدهار الحياة مرة أخرى.

لكن لا يمكن لأحد أن يبعث من جديد ما لم يمت أولاً...

عليك أن تعرف كيف تموت، أي أن تترك الماضي وراءك، وتكسر القوالب القديمة، وتكون قادرًا على تجديد نفسك، وألا تكرر نفس الأخطاء، وألا تكرر نفس الكلمات.

"هذا ما تعلمته الليلة الماضية، على الأقل استمع إلي. لآلاف السنين، كان أوزيريس رمز القيامة والتجديد لشعبنا. يجب أن نفعل كما فعل آباؤنا، أن نستعد لموتنا، أن نجهز قبورنا، لكي نبعث... يجب أن ننقذ أفضل ما في شعبنا، أفضل ما في الماضي، أن نجمع كل ما هو جيد بينما نحارب الطاغية.

يجب أن نجمع النصوص المقدسة، العناصر الصالحة من الماضي. يجب أن نستعد في هذا المكان، نوع من القلعة المعزولة عن ويلات الزمن في وسط الصحراء، حيث أعلن جميع السلفون عن وصول عالم جديد.

في غضون ذلك، يجب أن نستمر في العيش، ونستنفد الحياة التي لدينا، بفرح وثقة، وفي الوقت نفسه دون التوقف عن الاستعداد للموت، حتى لو كنا نضحك تحت أشعة الشمس. لنتبع مثاله، بينما نعمل بفرح، لنجمع الأفضل، لنأخذ ما خلفته القرون المعذبة التي سبقتنا، لنفسح مكانًا في قلعتنا-قبرنا لوضع تمثال للجميلة حتحور، ولنضع أيضًا داخلها نصوص الحكيم بتاحوتب والنصوص المقدسة للبشرية. ربما ينبغي لنا أيضًا أن نزين الممرات بلوحات جدارية مثل تلك التي رسمها أسلافنا على الجدران، دون أن ننسى في الأجزاء الأكثر خفاءً بعض نصوص بلوتينوس، حكيم أسيوط. دعونا نحتفظ بأساطير ألف ليلة وليلة وقصص الفارس العظيم صلاح الدين.

دعونا نتذكر رمسيس وإمحوتب، ونحفظ في الداخل، من يدري، ربما نسخة من الفيدا، أو نسخة مصغرة من مكتبة الإسكندرية. دعونا نضع أيضًا في تابوت ذهبي القرآن الكريم، والإنجيل، وكتاب رحيل الروح إلى نور النهار... كل هذا يتوقف على اختيار الأساسيات، على الرغم من أننا لن نتفق دائمًا. كن حذراً، فليس هناك مكان لكل شيء! ما نختاره يجب أن يكون قد أثبت قدرته على الصمود. يجب أن نضع الآلهة في اعتبارنا أيضاً؛ سيتعين علينا أن نضع بعض التصوف في جيوبنا، بعض العناصر الأخلاقية التي يمكن لأسياد القدر أن يأخذوها إلى أفواههم. وبالطبع، هناك آلهة بعدد البشر، ولن يرغبوا جميعًا في نفس الشيء، لذا سيتعين علينا حمل أشياء مثل ماعت، والعدالة والحقيقة، أشياء بسيطة ومستقيمة وصادقة، وقليل من الكرم وبعض لآلئ اللياقة، ولكنها مزروعة في قشرة الاحترام والصدق وليس في الأعضاء التناسلية..."

[الخطوات السبع لأوزيريس - خوان مارتين]

وهذا هو مفتاح القيامة: دعونا نترك وراءنا كل ما هو عديم الفائدة ونحتفظ بكنوز الروح؛ أما الباقي فيجب نسيانه، لأنك إذا لم تكن قادرًا على التخلي عن حياتك الماضية، فلن تتمكن من الوصول إلى حياة الحاضر الأبدي، هنا والآن.

Seven Keys to Overcoming the Crisis and Not Dying in the Attempt 02

KEY 1: CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE

Society is certainly in crisis, but human beings have both a timeless dimension and a temporal one. The crisis may affect the temporal, but not necessarily the timeless. This means we must give proper size and proportion to the problems that affect us: we need perspective.

First Lesson in Perspective

Human beings are timeless, even though they have temporal manifestations (childhood, maturity, old age, another life). Look in the mirror, look deeply into your eyes. When you look at yourself, don't you feel that deep down you are the same person you have always been, the same since childhood? Don't you have the feeling of being beyond time, of continuity? "Deep down, I haven't changed, I'm the same, I recognize myself."

But how is that possible? Please, look at yourself again, but now look at your exterior. What do you see? A man or woman weighed down by years, perhaps ill, or perhaps young and full of energy? Maybe a father or a mother? Remember your childhood, school, your parents, your first love. How much has your body, your face, your gaze, your voice changed?

So, there is something in you that changes, and something that remains. There is something superficial and something deep; things that others know, and things that only you know, because they are impossible to explain.

Please, I invite you to do an exercise: connect with that "stranger" inside and look at things from that angle. Look back and forward, trace the line of your life from above, with distance. With the same distance you sometimes use to judge what you say and what you think.

Question: Are you the one who thinks, the one who speaks, or that other one who observes and judges how you think and how you speak? There are two "selves" in you, and you didn't know it, though you sense it.

Second Kind of Perspective

Do a little experiment: walk with someone through the city streets and let the topics of conversation flow. If you pay attention, you will see that over 80% of the seemingly random ideas that arise have been triggered by something you saw along the way—a sign, a color, a noise that initiates a cascade of automatic associations. In other words, our thinking is conditioned; most of the time, it is not free. Try the experiment, I beg you, and then we'll talk.

And yet you still consider yourself independent and free...?

Third Kind of Perspective

You have relatively little interest in ants. You only talk about atoms in physics class, but they aren't important in your life; you could perfectly well live without knowing what an atom is. They are so small! They can be ignored, although ants are more interesting because they eat the things you don't keep. Yet every day you walk and crush them without being aware, and the truth is you don't care about them, except when they eat your sandwich.

Okay, I understand. But why don't you look "up" now? You are a small being; there are millions like you (7 billion). You are not special in any way; your opinion is therefore worth one seven-billionth of humanity. You are a tiny speck on a local map—a very local one, because you aren't even visible on a national one.

When you see a group of birds flying in one direction from a distance, or a school of fish moving in unison, you think they are reflex actions, that they move instinctively, following the majority. Of course, they have no consciousness of their own, they are not free!

However, you buy an iPhone and wait for hours at the door of a store to get the latest model, as if your life depended on it. When we say "iPhone," we mean anything else: political choices, trends, fashions, cars, etc., etc. Why this uniformity? Could it be that those in control know how to manage the herd, how to excite passions, how to make us buy what we don't need, how to make us hate who they want us to hate or love what interests them? You would be amazed to know the many forms of manipulation that exist.

And yet you still think you have your own opinion and independent judgment...

Fourth Class of Perspective

Consider your small size, which we already talked about, and also your remote-controlled or automatic reactions. Now look up and contemplate how the Earth is nothing more than a tiny planet in a solar system that is far from being the most important. Our sun is small, very small compared to other suns, and it is almost like a speck of dust next to our galaxy, which is a very ordinary galaxy among the billions up there, forming immense galactic fabrics.

When you look at the cells in your body, you say to yourself, "Well, this is my skin, made up of millions of cells. If I scratch because it itches, I remove millions of cells, but what does it matter? They are not important, nor are the millions of bacteria I remove when I wash my hands." In short, everything is relative; we understand that. The problem is that from other perspectives, we are also relative, small, and expendable.

Fifth Class of Perspective, the one we must not forget, the authentic reality

All the perspectives we have seen are those of our everyday self, let's say our lower self: simple, human, impressionable, lost.

If we were to represent that lower self in a graph, it would be nothing more than the confluence of all those constants that affect us from the external, phenomenal world. It is a fragile and unstable self. Leonardo da Vinci, about whom we are told so many things—some true, some false—represented this human self in a famous drawing, the so-called Vitruvian Man:

Here we see that dependent self; its perspectives are as discussed above. As you can see, it is a man framed in a square—that is, limited to the earthly, which is what the square symbolizes: body, life, feelings, and thoughts. It is dependent on those things; take any of them away and it will disappear; it is mortal. Think about it, do the mental exercise. His self is merely the geometric result of those elements: damage his body, for example, and you will see how the center of the self shifts; or damage his emotions and the center will shift again; remove one of the sides and there will be no center. It is an illusory self. That is why our self changes with illness, with good or bad luck, whether we have energy or are tired. It is very unstable.

Let's take it a step further. Now let's look at the whole picture. This other man, inscribed in the circle—the blue one—touches the limits of the circle with his hands and raised feet. He is a man in whom a fifth element appears, which is why he is also framed in a pentagon formed by his body. He raises his arms and legs and rises above it all. In other words, he no longer depends on those four things we mentioned before—body, life, feelings, and thoughts—but is another self, a higher, more elevated one.

Do you know who he is? Yes, you guessed it: he is the one who contemplates what you think, who judges and sees beyond time. And he is not an angel, but your other self. You know him.

The more often and the longer you can see things from that fifth perspective, the more you will have taken the first step toward being yourself—your real, timeless self.

 

Seven Keys to Overcoming the Crisis and Not Dying in the Attempt - 01

Disappointed Expectations: Human and Values Crisis

In the collective unconscious, there is uncertainty about an imminent social collapse, aggravated by mistrust and powerlessness in the face of the ruling classes and the lack of authentic leaders. On the other hand, our positivist and materialistic education generated expectations of an advanced social order and continuous and progressive prosperity. However, we see that these expectations were not based on reality, but rather that there are economic, social, and ecological cycles whose laws we do not know, and which suddenly appear, dismantling the social and economic system in a matter of days and causing a humanitarian and values crisis with profound and long-lasting repercussions, especially for “Western” psychology, which is now universal.

The West has not only lost the direction of its leaders, but has also called into question its own identity (often at the hands of those same pseudo-political leaders). It has sown the seeds of discord and erosion in the very foundations of its educational systems and, through the mass media, in public opinion itself. All social and cultural values have been called into question with the acquiescence of the powerful and politicians of all kinds.

And if there are no authentic leaders, there are no followers either, but rather an amorphous mass that does not know what to expect. We do not know whether African drum music is better than Mozart, or whether monogamous marriage, an expression of a long coexistence between Western religions, the result of millennia of jurisprudence and social experience, etc., is better, or whether we should let other cultures impose their polygamous customs in the name of supposed tolerance, even if this leads to the loss of women's rights. We no longer know whether religious freedom means allowing someone to cook a crucifix on a television program or to caricature of prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). We do not know whether Michelangelo's Pietà should be valued at the same level as the €124,000 cost of each can of fresh feces by the artist Piero Manzoni. We no longer know whether life is sacred or not, while the secret cloning of human beings continues at the same time as the belief that artificial intelligence will give way to the humanity (?) of the future is promoted by all means.

The confusion is total. This is the cause of the crisis of values, relativism, not knowing which way to turn, since everything has been called into question.

To this systematic destruction of the fundamental pillars has been added, consciously or unconsciously, a scientific-materialistic projection of the future: that of a brave new world, organized solely by science, which will be able to respond to all our material needs. What does it matter to know what is good or bad, moral or immoral, (thinks the materialist, selfish and hedonist man) if you will have everything at your fingertips anyway, live protected, and all your appetites will be satisfied? However, the opposite has happened: not only is there moral insecurity, but also economic insecurity; what was promised has not been fulfilled.

Suspicion begins to spread, and epidemic diseases of almost biblical proportions announce that something is not right. No one trusts what society and its leaders can offer them anymore. The collective unconscious reflects this vision through literary and cinematic creations that present us with a world in a catastrophic state where survival is the only law.

Many utopias have been attempted over the last two centuries. Many kinds of utopian “isms,” prefabricated in offices by intellectuals with no real experience, have been born with the pretension of bringing solutions, yet they have only generated centuries of conflict and more bloodshed than ever in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Social revolution has not worked, among other things because there were no authentic human leaders, at most crude revolutionary chiefs, or leaders without conscience, sometimes murderers, who took power, and other times interest groups that managed to apply their own formulas.

From which dark office will they devise the new savior model? Who will carry it out? People imbued with wisdom and heroism, or rather people eager to be part of “the caste”?

All we have left is the human revolution, that is, the internal revolution that focuses on the very basis of the problem, on the human beings who make up the social fabric. We need a New Man, with a different outlook, capable of seeing within himself and capable of realizing universal humanistic ideals.

That Human Revolution can only have as its principles Fraternity, Knowledge, and the Development of Human Potentials, based on a deep respect for all people, of all races, regardless of country or gender; it is enough to be human.

We propose Seven Keys to Overcoming the Crisis, which we will develop in successive articles.

Key 1: Change Your Perspective

Key 2: What Depends on You?

Key 3: Capacity for Resurrection

Key 4: Don't Waste Time or Energy

Key 5: Seek Perfection

Key 6: Seek Immortal Values

Key 7: Seek Your Place in Time

“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” (John F. Kennedy)

To this I add “and for yourself, for your deepest Self”