 So, it's another cliche to add to the list that nothing in life can remain in a steady state. There is always a progress, a movement, a growth. One way it's put is that everything is either growing or dying. There is no steady state. What we see as the steady state is what it looks like when there is what appears to be kind of a stable pattern of growing and dying at a rate that makes sort of a plateau that can last a long time. Like if we see a baby growing, well the growing becomes obvious with the quick changes, but with an adult we don't see those changes. We see what appears to be a person kind of repeating themselves every day and sort of being the same for many, many, many days. And yet that is the outward appearance of a system that is constantly renewing itself. Every day with eating, with sleeping, it is a constant building from the cellular level on up to the full organism. This steady state, this idea of staying the same is just what it looks like when there is a stable pattern of continuous growth and decay in balance. And it's easy to just look at it as this is staying the same. It's easy to neglect and ignore the idea of this continuous growth because the overall appearances and for ourselves our internal feelings can often simply feel the same. So it seems normal for us to begin the day by simply assuming without any thought that we are the same person. We were yesterday. I mean this is all very reasonable. And yet at the lower level underneath the surface at the basic level there is this continuous growth and death and cycling. And we are continually changing every day. Again, something that we've probably all learned but not something that we necessarily think about. I remember as a young child learning that the idea that every cell in our body is completely different after seven years so that after seven years everything that you're made of is completely new material from what was there seven years ago. And I always thought that this was quite a fascinating idea. But I don't know if it's really sinking in to how I see things. I think it's much too easy to become comfortable with the steady state. The idea of being the same. And certainly during my worst times of time wasting escapism this idea of staying the same is certainly a contributor because if you feel that this is just it, it's going to stay like this. It makes it more excusable, more forgivable, easier to waste a day. What's a day? But by becoming aware of this idea of continual growth, continual change, then we can't simply continue in sort of an automatic default inertial course. There's no choice but to change and develop every day. And all this came to my mind today because I had as I talked about last time went into a deep rest where I took a long night's sleep and completely let myself completely rest from everything and just allow myself to wake up as a new person and say, I am going to restart everything. And you know, I found today it was very difficult to get back into my routines of exercise and work. I felt like I had to start it up again. I had to once again make myself do something that I didn't want to do. And I had become very comfortable with my regular exercise routine and I was happy with it for a period of several weeks where I was just rolling through it with complete consistency and not comfort in this. It was still uncomfortable to do the exercise as any good exercise should be not fully comfortable. But in a sense, I was comfortable with that routine. Today I just had this inertial feeling of I don't want to do anything. And it made me realize that we really do have to renew what we're doing every day. There is no automatic continuation. There is no automatic repetition. Even something that is a habit is not something that is automatic. There can be levels of something being automatic and there can be something that's almost automatic. We don't have to think about it. But that's only the most extremely baked in habits. Things like I always use the example of brushing my teeth. Brushing my teeth is a completely built-in habit that I have no concern about dropping that habit. I'm completely convinced that it is useful and I just do it as a completely automatic thing. Something like exercising. That's something that requires a bit more effort, of course. And although I'm completely convinced of the value, it's easier to come up with excuses for not wanting to exercise today. Brushing the teeth, it's like, it's only a few minutes and the advantages are obvious. The excuses of I don't feel like it just can't get through. But with exercise, there can be any number of reasons. I deserve an extra day's rest. Some people don't work out that hard. Sometimes it's okay to just live a generally active life and get some good movement and you don't need to have a hard workout too much. And the list goes on and on. We are great at, the human mind is great at generating excuses. It really is a great creative skill. The creativity of excuses is certainly a powerful expression of human creativity. And so this comes up every day. Some days may feel closer to automatic and some days might feel picking ourselves up off the ground just like an unconscious body. Just like having to like drag ourselves like a corpse through our tasks or anything in between. But every day, we have to remember why we're doing what we're doing. And we have to really make it clear to ourselves why we're doing this. And we have to renew our actions and do it again for that day. There's no carrying forward in the ultimate sense. Of course, the stronger we make our habits, the closer it gets to that automatic extreme. But there's no automatic. There's no automatic carrying forward. Every day must be lived as a new day in which we are a new being taking new actions. So go out and be today.