August 19th

Order

Build your life brick upon brick.
Live a life of truth,
And you will look back on a life of truth.
Live a life of fantasy,
And you will look back on delusion.


The good of today is based upon the good of yesterday. That is why we should constantly be attentive to our actions. Take frugal people as an example. They recycle the scraps from their cooking into compost piles. They eat at home rather than in restaurants. They do not waste water. They shop carefully. They do not spend their money on frivolities. This is exactly the type of care that we need for spirituality.
We should not fritter our efforts away on amusements; rather, we should concentrate on endeavors most important to us. We should not randomly gather information; rather, we should try to order it into a comprehensive whole, thereby compounding our abilities to our own advantage. We should not carelessly tell lies, because we will then be divorced from the truth that we seek.
Whether our lives are magnificent or wretched depends upon our ordering of daily details. We must organize the details into a composition that pleases us. Only then will we have meaning in our lives.


Personal Interpretation

 
 We must order our lives in such a way that we can derive the most benefit from every bit of knowledge we gain, step we take, lesson we learn. Waste not, want not should be the slogan we live by. We must build up our lives brick by brick and work to insure that it is the life we wish for ourselves. We should work and live in the name of truth. We reap what we sow. We create order by instilling each act with meaning and discarding everything that does not fit into our overall purpose.