The current Ukraine crisis...

[Patrick]

...The entity who seeks within your illusion is one which faces choices at each step along the journey of seeking. That which is learned, then, creates within the entity the need for putting that which is learned into practice within the life pattern. Thus, the life must equal the learning...

Of course, once we start those little exercises and we find a bit of success, we are challenged by life. This way we know when we succeed, we don't need to think about how we will know if we are getting there.