It is our destiny, each one of us, to save the world. Yes, we can, and we will. Deep inside of us we know this is what we want to do, and why we came to this world in the first place. On some level we dream of this all the time; it is why almost all the novels and movies created by our culture have a heroine or hero who saves the day. Because we ourselves want to. We need to.

And so we step onto the first of the five paths. It's called the Path of Accumulation—piling up enough goodness, enough power, to change ourselves and our world. We take this step by deciding that we can no longer bear the pain all around us.

Now we will no longer have any time for the meaningless distractions of life—we must simplify our lives, concentrate on what's really important. No more time to only work and eat and sleep and die—no more time to waste on newspapers and television to hear about how others wasted their time.