Beware of the highest!

"Beware of the highest! Rather, beware of what you think the highest to be. Too often it is merely your ambitious ego chaining you to some impossibly exalted peak. You must let all that go, and just accept yourself wherever you are — at the foothills, stuck halfway up a mountain, in the deepest valley of depression, nearly at the summit. All must be accepted and enjoyed for what they are.
"Are you late for a crucial appointment? Enjoy it. Your lateness isn’t an accident. Maybe you will be shouted at? Now there’s an unusual experience to be cherished and examined. If it happens, dissociate yourself from the process and observe the non-verbal messages that pass between you and the one who conceives it hir role to abuse you.
"Maybe you will miss a vital connection, or fail to organise things before the arrival of others? Why do these things matter so much? Is it for what they are, or because of your ego has no self-esteem except in the eyes of others?
"Perhaps a child is depending on you? That is disturbing, but why must you always think the worst? To think the best is to commit positive vibrations to the etheric level which will benefit your object. Not thinking the worst is not complacency. Far from it. ‘Best’ or ‘worst’ are rarely realistic.
"If you allow yourself to swing wildly between opposing poles how can you hope to find your direction? From centredness comes balance.
"So. Take it at a steady pace. You may be late on this occasion. That may be unfortunate, but it will not be an accident. It will have happened because it has a function in your life. Perhaps to show you that you habitually underestimate the resources required to fulfil your needs? Maybe you don’t value yourself enough to take the necessary time? Is Time money? No, certainly not, but Money is indicative of your value-system’s relation to time, and time is your principal resource in this existence. You may spend it wisely or wantonly.
"Perhaps you are about to be late because you actually don’t want to be there at all, subconsciously you know that, but you lack the courage to face the implications of change? Maybe you’re on the way to being fired?
"Think, firing can illuminate your whole environment. Accept. Underneath are the everlasting arms, you can't fall further than is necessary for you to slough off the dead skin of your old lifestyle. Who says you should do this job? Probably it's your will. Yet you say ‘Why does God not bless my endeavours?’
"Well God neither wants nor needs your endeavours. How stupid to try and be a pop-star if your talent is teaching. Someone who instils useful thoughts considerately is of infinitely greater value to society than someone who clutters up minds with the detritus of half-achieved self-expression.
"We have our own endeavours to effect whatever we need. If we don’t, it is because like thoughtful guardians we know our charges can only learn and grow by accident and experience. Sometimes the results are tragic for you. But then you know in advance that they will be! With hindsight even a sleeper sees that war was coming, but only the fully awakened have foresight. The masses choose to drown out knowledge, instinct, and memory with entertaining soporifics – and yet still blame the ensuing catastrophe on everyone except themselves.

"Don’t aspire, only accept. Then your aspiration will be as natural as your breathing, and you will no longer be chained to some impossible ideal whose only function is to supply you with an unending source of anger because you cant achieve it!
"Of course there is excitement in going round the edge of the mountain on 2 wheels, and of course that produces energy — but as an energy source its non-renewable. You exhaust it and it exhausts you.
"Wind, pneuma, spirit is an ever-present motivating power that costs nothing and consumes nothing, but it enables you to float or fly, or merely drift in the breeze. If there is no wind then look for water, deep, resonantly blue, and of infinite power to refresh. Bathe naked in it and immediately your awareness of the wind will be heightened.
"Perhaps you’re not ready for take off yet? How disastrous it would be then to attempt it. Acceptance not struggle will keep your mind clear for the signal you’ll recognise even before its given. Meanwhile, enjoy your self where you are."