Letter to the Editor

“Cultivation” is a word I woke up to when I saw that word reflected all over this city. I thought about that 4 a very long while, then created 8 “Cultivation” Challenges for the universe:

1. Cultivation be wholy in principal. Start with understanding emotions, then integrate principles. Did we Fail? Learn from that. Bad options all around? Dig deeper or make new ones. Learn what works or let it all go. Like and appreciate a particular Success? Practise, grow, then habitualize.
   Tip: Experience Love in full, and give love away while following heart.
   
   
2. Release the past by loving what is best about that past. This asks one to permit change, especially when it helps. Let everything else become water under the bridge.
   
   
3. Work to make good from bad via the application of integrity.
   
   
4. Serve. Those that recognize service always give thanks.
   
   
5. There may exist a subtly which is missed by mathematics.   In other words, the ‘feeling’ within a situation be tangibly subjective because of its relation to and impact upon that specific individual.
   
   
6. Believe in universe where virtue persists, now imagine the steps getting there.“The Golden Bough” - by Sir James George Frazer *
   
   
7. Practice the application of principal and virtue in every situation. (aka, “Do your best!”)
   
   
8. Grow Harmony within oneself, and those in proximity.

Peter Verhagen
Saint Albert
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough