The Foundation

 Eve Baker

What hinders us particularly at the start of the journey is a sort of dissipation of our desires; we seek what gives us pleasure and judge as good that which rewards us with this kind of satisfaction. But we judge of pleasure by very limited standards; this sort of pleasure is transitory, and cannot satisfy us permanently. In order to find the goal we are seeking we have to become detached from our own pleasure.

By this sort of self-discipline we learn to journey without any expectation of reward; we learn to accept what is put before us without picking and choosing the parts we should like. This is the foundation, without which no progress can be made, since the path ahead is God’s path, and his ways are not our ways.

The Mystical Journey