BEGINNING AND END

If you have found your beginning, you can also find your end. A true beginning is often the start of a true ending—when a person moves in the right direction, they inevitably reach their destination. Failing to arrive at the destination only happens if the journey started in the wrong direction.

The entire universe is arranged so that whenever a person starts a good action, the whole cosmos works together to see it through. When a gardener plants a seed in the soil, the entire world participates in nurturing it until it grows into a perfect, tall tree.

Similarly, when someone takes a right action in this world, the entire system of existence comes to their aid. Everything starts to support them so they can see their action through to completion.

If a person notices that the work he started is not making progress, then he should review his own performance and his plan. Certainly, there will be some shortcomings on his part that prevent his effort from reaching its goal.

A person should, therefore, think carefully before taking action. He should develop his plan after a realistic assessment. And once he puts his plan into motion, he should give his full effort without holding anything back. If he follows these steps, then what unfolds in the future will undoubtedly be the very thing he holds as an aspiration in his heart.

Understanding the beginning of the thread is to understand its end as well. Hold tightly to the starting point—then you’ll also hold the far end. It won’t detach from you.

For a right beginning has no destination other than a right end.