Courage

In order to break through an impasse, what is essential and only needed is courage.

What is courage exactly?

Courage is an attitude or will to dare to do something which one often feels unwilling, hesitant or even afraid to do.

Yet, at times it can be very difficult to generate.

But without courage, nothing will happen.

People would stay resigned to the situation, and time would simply passe till the end of life.

Courage is an only solution to break the chain of the negative cycle.

How can one generate it?

It is often the case that people feel discouraged in the face of the psychological burdens to overcome potential troubles.

Some may be overwhelmed and become at a loss.

One way to deal with it is to focus on a single action to take.

Just try to generate courage or simply stay cool in taking only that specific action.

This constitutes at least one break-through.

And do another, and then do another again.

Step by step, one after another.

Through their accumulation with patience, the wave of a holistic break-through will emerge.

Worth

At times, one may wonder if this life is worth living.

No matter how desperately make efforts, how earnestly create something again and again and again and again, none will respond at all in this society.

It is as if confronting a huge wall, which does not utter even a word and just stay still there.

It says nothing and obstructs one's way forward

No one heeds this voice.

A cold place, cold society.

Then, is it worth living?

Is it worth making efforts?

But there is nothing else to be able to be done.

Nothing else.

All that can be done is to do the thing one is doing.

Just going the way one is going.

If one looks around and only keeps concerned about others' eyes, one may lose confidence and see oneself as useless and worthless.

Then, don't look at them.

People may judge, but will never help.

What is the point to rely on them?

What is valuable is relative.

One can decide one's own value by oneself.

No matter how others may evaluate, criticize and ignore.

That is their problem, not one's own.

Let them do so whatever.

Just concentrate on one's own life.

Then, create to the heart's content.

No matter how dark and quiet the place may be.

It may be like living at the the bottom of the sea.

But as long as having a little light of hope and satisfaction, the life itself is worthwhile boundlessly.

Those living only worried about and totally servile to others' opinions may be living materially comfortable life, but spiritually in hell like slavery.

One can decide the worth of one's own life, not others

And perhaps hundreds or thousands years later, there could be a true friend who will understand the real worth of it.

Whole

It is useful or even essential to have a holistic perspective.

In the process of learning or working on something, it is better to grasp a whole idea of a subject matter in the beginning.

Take a look at the structure with a bird's eye view first.

And then, tentatively go through a whole process in a swift manner.

No need to be detailed or precise at this stage.

Repeat it again and again, so that one can build up and deepen the understanding or creation of the matter.

Gradually, the holistic construct of it will emerge.

The contents will be more and more detailed and precise through the accumulation.

Continue that process for further perfection and completion.

Through the repetition, refine the quality and sharpen the strength of the outcome.

Then, conclude the work and finish it off.

Night

There can be time when it feels nothing is moving forward.

It might be even felt everything is getting wrong.

It happens somehow despite all-out efforts.

Then I sometimes wonder if I am doing wrong.

Am I going totally wrong direction?

But I can not think of any other way.

I am just trying my best.

I've never meant doing anything wrong.

Why?

Probably, that hesitation per se would be the very thing to break through.

There seems a psychological barrier that limits the range of the efforts.

Some kind of cowardice is preventing own self from going beyond the limitation.

But how can I overcome?

Just try the efforts I'm now doing to the end.

Just give everything into it until their completion and perfection.

Just go ahead until having an actual break-through.

Don't stop.

Never give up.

The night is the darkest and coldest just before sunrise.

Life

One cannot live the life of someone else.

One can only live one's own life.

Therefore there is no use of envying other's life.

No matter how dull the life seems like, there is no other way but to live it.

Then just live that life.

Dare to live it.

Concentrate on  it.

Deepen it.

Refine it.

Sharpen it.

Until it becomes absolutely clear to own mind.

Until one feels absolutely fine with that life.

Relax

Just take a deep breath.

And relax.

You can't do everything.

That's fine, then.

Just relax.

And do what you can and wish to do.