I recently received a quotation on facebook that went something like this:

"Sometimes people to whom you are kind will be unkind...be kind anyway"

To which I would add:

"Sometimes people will use the ladders you have built for their benefit to descend rather than ascend...build ladders anyway."

Someone once told me, 'make sure you kick the ladder away, once you're through climbing it'. There's no going back to a ladder already climbed. But then there's something else about kicking a ladder; someone else may use it. This thread belongs to that person.

In my climb I have come across many lessons. But the most important are;

1. One will always experience evil. But evil is good, for at the end is illumination, for those that strive against it.

2. Just as there's evil, there's goodness. And the evil is in the goodness, and goodness is supreme, and purposeful. And all Scripture is meant to kindle the fire of goodness.

3. The path of and to goodness is an eight rung ladder, and the ladder is also a person. Each state of consciousness a rung.

4. To have ultimate power, you must not only step on the eighth rung of the ladder, but you must daily be the ladder unto others.

5. There's something sweeter than sex, and that's love without fear. So it's better for one to resolve his fear by illumination than have sex.

6. Focus and concentration will always yield the desired results, as long us you keep to the ladder.

7. At the seventh rung, you must remember to doff your hat at the prophets and Brahmins, but no more. Your mind must go beyond Scriptures past, and write down new words.

8. There on the last rung, the ladder begins again; and just as Man and ultimate power are one, the master becomes the student.

And life becomes infinitely simple. And beautiful. Like the rainbow.

Muriel, Yes we need ladders. Some ladders are useful. Though not in every aspect of our lives. That is why we kick some, should we find we climbed them, and use others to descend.

Danas10,

Now you see? How can you say 'some' are useful then add, 'not in every aspect'. The 'non-usefulness' in the secondary aspects surely cancels out the some 'usefulness' in initial aspects. I urge you to reconsider and kick them all as you come across them, not just some.

Brother, are you saying that the ladder is character? Is it thought and deed? If it is, then we have gone off in a tangent.

Danas10,

Now you see? How can you say 'some' are useful then add, 'not in every aspect'. The 'non-usefulness' in the secondary aspects surely cancels out the some 'usefulness' in initial aspects. I urge you to reconsider and kick them all as you come across them, not just some.

Brother, are you saying that the ladder is character? Is it thought and deed? If it is, then we have gone off in a tangent.