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Now What?

It's no time to quit now. Look deep, deep down into your heart up to and through the complicated hyperbolic layers of your mind into the dark marrow of your bones and out to the embodied spirit you carry with the thousands of lives lived by your soul before; look inside to find the energy you need and use it. You can do this. Summon all your strength not only from your body, but beyond you; summon the strength of the millions of souls who have made this journey already. Put the Universe at your back, feel the push of it and never, ever give up. This dream you have is bringing you home and it does. These voices you hear, they are your adoring crowd, cheering you on: 'You can do it!' someone cries out, 'We believe in you!' says another. You keep going through it all, going to where you know you belong, going to see your dream a reality, going going going. You continue through the pain of it, through the joy of it, through the close calls and the calm waters; you never forget where you came from and all the places you have seen. You bring it all along: the joy of your life, the pain of your life, your journey; you bring it all home, you bring it with elation in your heart. Look at what you can do, what you are a part of...it is so much bigger than you and it is beautiful! The crowd roars, or is it the rushing waters? It doesn't matter. What matters is that you are going to make it, no matter what challenges are put in your way, no matter how lost you may get, you start again, you find another way, you never give up, and you do it. What you envision is real, you make it real. It isn't easy, if anything it is the greatest challenge you will ever face, but you do it because it is you and you don't quit, you don't give up; you put every breath into it, into every falls, every weir, every dam, every smooth glide, and you find it: home.