Seize this precious opportunity to clarify your purpose, fortify your resolve, conquer limiting perspectives, and deepen your capacity across the diverse range of aptitudes that facilitate performance excellence in all endeavors.

For thousands of years, men have set aside their worldly affairs and collectively retreated into austerity, intuitively understanding the challenges they’d face on retreat would propel them into a deeper knowing of self, laying the grounds for the liberating experience of directly perceiving their true nature.

“Retreat” implies stepping back. In stepping back, a man’s vantage point shifts. Through this shift, perspective broadens and deepens, and his life unfolds more vividly.

The conditions encountered in retreating from the world, sprout into the conditions required for advancing in the world.

A man who does not regularly utilize the precious opportunity of retreat will never uncover within himself that which his soul finds to be truly meaningful, nor will he access the resolve required to advance powerfully in the realization of his unique life mission.

He will simply wander in distraction. Like most men do.

A few steps forward, a few steps back. Days will become months, which then become years. Decades will pass, and he will have nothing to show for his aimless wandering. No precious insight. No liberating shifts in perspective. No great success, no formidable risk. No freedom!

Unlike the average modern man who is perpetually running away from himself, the man who retreats confronts himself directly. In the poetic violence of that primal confrontation, lucid clarity emerges. 

In retreat, man understands clearly what he must do, what he must stop doing, and who he must become.

He returns to the world with renewed vitality and clarity of purpose. Recharged, refreshed, and fully prepared to advance powerfully in his mission.