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While walking the path, do you look forward always?  Do you ignore the earth beneath your feet or the tall grasses as they brush your fingertips?  Do you avoid the slight hills as you pass?

You should not.  Instead, see the path, see the grass, see the hills- not only with your eyes, but with your feet, your hands, your self.

Only by this experience can you know Yourself and design the Path that will define your Ultimate Destiny.

Once on the path, does one’s load help or hinder?  Surely all carry a parcel.  Regret, fear, envy, guilt, and anger can hinder progress on the path and taint destiny.  Conversely, joy, anticipation, and even greed can lighten the load and hasten the path.

But what are these emotions that hinder?  Are they of substance?  Yes.  To the slave they are dirty stones that burden them on their way.  The Master casts away these stones and never lets them find purchase in the Self.  The Master washes this filth away with joy and anticipation of further joy along the Path.

A Master must cleanse the Self of hindering emotion with feelings of joy.  Joy that is truly the Path to Destiny.

Along the Path are many Travelers.  One must wonder at the relationship of Path and Traveler.  Certainly the Traveler leaves his mark upon the Path and, in the same step, carries some fragment of the of the Path on his feet.  One is marked by the other in perfect union.

So, is purity possible along the Path?  It is.

Purity results from the conscious choice made by the mind of the Traveler.  To cleanse and replenish along the path- retaining fragments from the Path that are useful to the Self and casting off all others.  This purity by choice hastens Destiny.