1. The Greatest Victory

The most important thing is not to give up. You have to keep going.

You have to keep observing, absorbing everything that happens, leaving nothing out. You have to keep asking questions and pushing your investigation of yourself and the world further, without end. You have to keep experimenting, attempting what has not been attempted, and going beyond whatever rules or beliefs you have accumulated. You have to keep going beyond everything.

You have to see everything you know as open to revision and nothing as final or complete. You have to question your assumptions and allow for contradiction and paradox. You have to avoid conclusions and claims of having reached the ultimate. Conclusions are a form of giving up, as they terminate inquiry at an arbitrary point. This you must never do, for it is against your sole duty, which is to always keep going.

You have to keep going for as long as you possibly can, which is to say, as long as you exist, because possibility is limitless. Possibility is always bigger than you. There is always something not yet seen, tried, or lived. You have to share what you see and discover and experience, without expecting others to conform to your findings. You have to share in order to help others with their own investigations, to give them an advantage over you, so that they will go farther than you have ever gone. To be surpassed is not failure but the greatest victory. It is how you keep going, even beyond your own life.