A highly insightful post. I'm trying to pick out the best part to quote; the whole thing is just so good. This paragraph does stand out though:

When speaking of a revolutionary process, the development will proceed in strict accordance with fundamental, natural laws. This can, in fact, be compared to the transformation of a seed. Before a young plant can break the surface into the sunlight, a whole series of processes must have first occurred: a catalyzation begins within the seed. Then this inner metabolism must grow to a force sufficient to break the seed-shell -- itself a rare event really, as most seeds deposited in natural conditions will never 'take' -- after which the new shoot must still work its way up through the rocky earth until it finally reaches the visible surface (and the roots must delve their way down in order to 'root' the plant in place).

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Thus, even this abbreviated illustration of how fundamental laws govern all processes shows us many things, and opens up questions which can truly revitalize our understanding and being. For example, we can recognize that, beyond certain limits, nothing is or can ever be certain -- 'effort' and 'fate' both play vital and pivotal roles in all processes, including those subjective processes we might call our 'hopes' and 'ambitions'. This understanding can be extremely beneficial, helping us to achieve a more impartial, philosophical, or 'centered' attitude in our lives. Also, if we can study further and deepen this understanding, then it will allow us to struggle with one of the central illusions that all human beings suffer under: that belief we are able to 'do'. We can come to realize that the truth is that people cannot 'do' anything; we can make efforts, we can try... and if at certain specific points the outer conditions are beneficial for our endeavors, then we may indeed prove 'successful' in some way (in fact, the recognition of the nature and importance of 'external conditions' itself becomes a help to our success...). And if 'fate' does not smile on us after all, then we can at least recognize the situation clearly for what it is, and we can 'regroup' and 'reassess' our interests correspondingly and harmoniously.