Overview and Outlook

When you do some mountaineering...you sometimes...want to climb to some peak but there is fog everywhere...you have your map or some other indication where you probably have to go and still you are completely lost in the fog. Then...all of a sudden you see quite vaguely in the fog, just a few minute things from which you say, “Oh, this is the rock I want.” In the very moment that you have seen that, then the whole picture changes completely, because although you still don’t know whether you will make the rock, nevertheless for a moment you say, “... Now I know where I am; I have to go closer to that and then I will certainly find the way to go ...”