Woe to those who let their waiting rooms double as living rooms! Step confidently into your chosen office, not just as a patient but also as a surgeon. For soon, you will be tasked with operating upon the world. Whose world? Don’t flinch when I tell you: many times, it’s yours!
To be a surgeon, to undertake that noble occupation as your calling, implies two mutually dependent beliefs: belief in the ability of the body to heal itself and acknowledgment that sometimes it needs a partner to assist in that task when the job is too great for the body alone.
It is from this same basis that we take action in our lives, which is to say, we operate upon our own world! We do so, sure that it also possesses a natural tendency to heal. For the purposes of our metaphor here, that natural tendency equates to belief in fate—that we are headed where intended. Oh, but to be a surgeon who believes too strongly in fate apart from action is to be squeamish about using his scalpel as necessary! Oh fate, sometimes it seems, lands in our lap, but don’t let it fool you. We are not magnetized to attract it either, if only calling out for it from passive angles.
But as with your body, your healing powers (which is to say your fate) are true, are facts—complete facts of life! But sometimes, surgery is necessary too. Take action; this expedites fate! And sometimes, no arrival is possible but for the one properly expedited! Because, friends, listen when I tell you: there are times your fate, as it were, cannot heal by itself. To act is not to disprove the fact of you possessing a fate all your own, but it is to decisively work with it—to heal yourself unto your utmost becoming!
Oh friends, no surgery could be successful if your body itself didn’t have natural healing powers. Likewise, when you act in unison with yourself, when you take real initiative in the direction your deepest soul knows you should be headed, it’s a surgery on the outcome of your life! Who you are and what you could do—making precise incisions! Oh friends, don’t be too cautious to go under the knife, the life knife! Blessed is a life filled with such cut scenes!