Delicate Effort

There are many ways to work. In other words, there are many physical actions your body can take through which it can energize the process of transformation.
The Great Work is not one set of activities or techniques, but it does require a special way of approaching these activities.
The work you take on must be done with a particular, rather delicate, effort.
Working a lot, simply being a hard worker, is not enough.
Coming alive with the work you do is crucial.
No matter how many years you devote to a mechanical process, it won't suddenly rise out of its own mechanical nature. You end where you start.
Life must be there to begin with.