You will want to know whether you are doing it right. I wanted to know too, and he gave me a definition.
“Successful is the exercise that was done according to planned decisions, on the basis of a plan.”
— Elder Petros
What counts, he said, is the carrying out of your decisions. Not the disputed question of how able you are.
I asked him more than once why it is so hard, often unthinkable, for our will to get past our wants and our egos. The answer he gave me was that everything around you is an arena, a training ground for the return to a consciousness we have forgotten.
The Fellow Traveler is here if you would like to sit with that. Not to instruct you. To keep you company while you begin.
Good journey, Fellow Traveler Καλή πορεία συνοδοιπόροι
Passage One is complete. The practice is in the body now.