It must be viewed from a holistic perspective

A holistic perspective must be adopted—toward yesterday, today, and tomorrow. A holistic perspective requires seeing how yesterday reflects upon today, and how today will reflect upon tomorrow. What happens today is not due to what occurred yesterday alone; it is the cumulative result of all reflections accumulated up to yesterday. What will happen tomorrow will arise because of the accumulated effects of all yesterdays and todays that have built up until then. Thus, neither yesterday, nor today, nor tomorrow can be said to have caused events to occur in a single day. The emergence of events has stages and must necessarily unfold over time.

Order is built upon this process. The system operates in this manner. This is a fundamental principle of the universe. This emergence may sometimes occur in less than a second, lasting only fractions of a second; at other times, it may take hours; and at still others, it may span years. The emerging phenomenon may vary due to its own nature, or due to conditions such as time and space. An emergence that must occur within seconds and one that must take years to develop both occur precisely when their time arrives.

Emergences can be positive or negative. The emergence of positive phenomena, like the development of a tree from a seed or a child growing into an adult, is no less bound by time than the emergence of negative phenomena. Examples of what appear to be negative developments include a healthy person losing their health and becoming unwell, or a young person aging and experiencing a decline in vitality or mobility.

In some cases, negative emergences can be transformed into positive ones. Sometimes, a condition not entirely regarded as negative can be improved through refinement to achieve an even better state—such as recovery from illness or the enhancement of something already good. In these instances as well, the rule that emergence requires time remains valid, just as illness itself took time to develop. The essential principle we must derive from this is that emergence requires time. This principle is vital in the processes of healing mental, emotional, and physical ailments, as well as in stages of mental, emotional, and physical progress. Because journeys may be long and arduous, this principle serves as a necessary and encouraging truth: it reminds us that progress, though delayed, is inevitable when the path is rightly followed.

In difficult journeys, the intensity of hardship may rise to such a level that this principle may need to be reminded to us by others. When hardship becomes overwhelming, a person may reach the limits of their patience, lose sight of the connection between past and future, and fail to recognize—or even disregard—the cumulative emergence that has taken place from yesterday to today. Yet, numerous developments have already occurred through the accumulation of yesterdays. This is an unavoidable truth. This emergence may not yet have manifested visibly because its time has not yet come; its revelation may be reserved for tomorrow, not today. In such moments, provided the person is certain they are on the right path, they must not doubt that if what they have done has not yet yielded results, it is not because it should not happen, but because it will happen—perhaps even more beautifully than anticipated—at the right time.

Accumulation can sometimes resemble a puzzle. Until it is completed, its true nature remains hidden. Only when the right time and place arrive, and the pieces come together in their fullness, does the magnitude of the accumulation become apparent and captivate the individual.

Visual Representing Time and Puzzle Pieces (Generated by Artificial Intelligence)