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Self-realization is what our lives do. We're born, grow and mature; the seed becoming a tree. It's what living things do because they're alive. We have dreams we attempt to realize, a marriage, a secure home. We're constantly engaging in the realization of things. An inventor sees something in the mind and tries to realize it in a physical form that works in accord with the laws of the universe we live in, or a poet tries to realize an idea in accord with laws of language learned though the poet bends it this way and that because realization always acts in accord with some set of laws. Mechanical law, or biological law, or theological law, or even personal law but by some set of principles which constitute the system of law that brings about a more developed state, for self-realization is always toward a more developed state.
It may be qualitatively more if not quantitatively but it's always more. We trade shabby clothes for finer clothes and the quantity of clothes is the same but the quality has improved; we have realized a higher state in relationship to our clothing, or conversely a monk may give up the finer clothes and choose shabbier in order to realize a higher state of spiritual humility but it's always about an improvement of our condition.

While self-realization has many facets involving all the variety of aspects that make up our lives there is a focus which is not any one particular among all those aspects but rather the focus is the bringing together of them all under the umbrella of what can be called a Path of Self-Realization where you work with a Structure that's a matrix for all those aspects. Just as physical law is theorized as being able to be reduced to a few basic principles from which all others derive or depend on, there is a system of law that all acts of self-realization conform to, act out and make visible in actional form which laws are no more mysterious than any law of the universe once understood. Except these laws, this Principle, is a metaLaw from which all other take their cue.
This Principle can and must be the same that underpins all the laws of the universe whether physical or spiritual, material or theological for the universe cannot serve two masters. It is all one reality of lawfulness and one simple lawfulness undergirding everything where that lawfulness is simply the law of how things grow, and develop. Growth is a unique feature of biological life but all things develop. A ball rolling down an inclined ramp develops momentum and velocity and a change of place. A mountain slowly wearing away is developing a new form over time, a planet circling a sun has a repeating development in accord with its orbit. If something moves then it develops and all things are in motion at some level of their being.

The Structural Law is the law of realization out of which derives the self-realization that living things can engage in, and sentient living things can engage in a more complex and transcending way since they have minds that can affect what course that law takes and how it will appear in their lives. The law of realization can be treated as the law of process. This is what is being talked about here. The Law of Process as the Law of Realization is the same law on a biological scale called The Path of Self-Realization. That law becomes a rule to follow and thus a path to take. To make it more difficult than this would be foolhardy, however to treat it too simply would be reckless.
For the Law of Process because so primal in simplicity manifests in infinitely manifold ways; the base Law appearing to be many is only one. And the base law is not tangible, no more than any law is tangible. Electricity may be tangible but the laws that govern it are not nor the laws of celestial movement or acceleration. Things proceed and from that proceeding laws can be assembled and systematized but those laws are not tangible in any physical or material sense.

Laws are metaRealities in the universe. They are metaphysical, that should not be doubted. How they exist as such can be debated but that they exist apart from the physical forms or energetic forces in the universe can not. Gravity, an energetic force in the universe holds us to the ground but the law of gravity is nowhere to be found in the universe as matter or energy. To say Law is to say Order and there is order all over the universe. There is a law of symmetry's order but where is that law of order? Such a law is immaterial while it informs the world we live in as surely as the sun and moon. There is a law of temporality called Time but time is no physical thing, no form of energy not any material entity yet it regulates our lives as surely as the earth orbits the sun.
The Law of realization is nothing but the Ordered Process that allows one thing to become something else, to grow and develop and attain to more improved states, finer, higher, more developed states—possibly perfect states for if there is a law of Order, or an Order that dictates laws where does that lawfulness finish. Is it lawful to transcend that very Law? Is it lawful to find a state beyond the merely mundane with all its turmoil, suffering, and death because Law proceeds in two opposing directions. It builds up but it also tears down. It grows but it also wears away and destroys. It's the same ordered Process but going in two opposite directions. If that law can deprive us of life forever should it not also be able to give us life forever? And yet that orderliness may not be symmetrical in that way for there is also a law of asymmetry allowing one side of a polarity to be unequally greater than the other.

But if the asymmetry of death prevailing over life is in effect it is still so by a law of ordered process. Ordered processes are agnostic just as the laws of the universe are agnostic. You may be a saint but if you toss yourself from a cliff you smash upon the earth below just as a stone would. And yet, a saint may be lofted away by the angels and if so that would also be part of the lawfulness of Order—that the saintly shall be protected from the brutality of agnostic law, or so religion teaches and yet no law of Order would have been broken but that such Order can be repurposed in accord with the manifold multitude of its possible manifestations.
And yet I've experienced that the Law of Ordered Process is not agnostic but routinely works against us to bring all of our loftiest goals to an end. In the physical universe it's called entropy which is mindless and mechanical. But the inertia of Order is not always mindless not when that inertia becomes blowback. In the material world there is inorganic matter some very simple but other more complex in a hierarchy where the inorganic gives way to simple living things which also become more complex and sentient and this is no different than that realm of Law and Order which is immaterial where in its simplest form it acts with the mindlessness of the inorganic but as that Order proceeds to complexity taking on a semblance to something alive having at least something akin to intent and intent's a double-edged sword intending processes to grow and endure but intending them also to decay and end.
Theology calls that necessity of decay sin but sin is but a manifestation of a fundamental lawfulness of Order that demands equilibrium and equilibrium demands that death and life be equalized, that growing and decaying have the same weight of power, that rising has a falling, that every laugh be balanced by a tear, that every success will have an equal and opposite reactive failure. But here's the rub: if every success needs a failure then if we succeeded at something such that it was a finality of success so that we could truly claim a success that endured, how then could it be balanced by failure?

Order will not allow such a quality of success which violates the equilibrium of process, a process that is back and forth, stop and go, laugh and cry, succeed and fail, live and die. And such an orderliness is only agnostic until you attempt a success that will not eventually decay and fall into the failure of dissolutionment. Such an attempt will call forth an Order that has what you may if you wish call intent, one that will insure you don't succeed. There will not simply be failure there will be blowback for you must not succeed if Process is to be maintained as Order and Order as Fundamental Law where the duality of Being and Nonbeing are equal in status, if not in power.
Any kind of finality of success is tantamount to being a perfect success for only perfection endures. Anything less than perfect will pass because lacking the attribute and property that gives things endurance: Being Without Compromise and therefore the power of continuing existentiality. All that is less than perfect contains something of both being and nonbeing and such a state's anathema to existential endurance. There is that asymmetry that where nonbeing and being coexist nonbeing shall prevail. Only where being exists alone does it endure. In the universe we inhabit there is Law ordered by the balance of being and nonbeing, and in such a place nonbeing will prevail. In such a universe at some level of Order there is also an intent that however hard we try to succeed, we will fail but only if we try to perfectly succeed otherwise Order is agnostic, otherwise we may go about our successes with periodic failings but no blowback. Blowback comes from the intent of Order to strike down our hubris that we should dare to try to succeed perfectly.
But where Law is truly a balance of being and nonbeing even though nonbeing must asymmetrically prevail there must also be a way for being to endure if there is to be balance.

But why is perfection anathema to Order? But it isn't, and it's that contradiction which is the Paradox of Order that must be grappled with and if possible overcome for part of the orderliness of Order is the paradox that to be in equilibrium it must be in equilibrium with Disorder. Not Chaos in any absolute sense but a disordering of its essence of ordering that makes of it contrarily a lack of Order and in that lack other possibility emerges. In the paradox of Order becoming disordered in an orderly way, new order appears as an emergent property. In such a space of time and place we may slip out of our all-encompassing Path, move sideways as it were into a different ordering of Order, one where perfection reigns.

But our Path of self-realization encompasses our whole life from conception, including every action we take though all actions aren't equal in meaning or value. Some actions are critical to forward movement, while most are secondary. Order at the level of our ignorance is truly agnostic. It doesn't matter that we proceed quickly, or if we proceed at all. But any Path of each of us tends toward a realization of higher quality; it tends toward it fervently if we so want it and intend it but growth is always toward greater realization and our natures lean toward such realization if it takes forever for only by our own intent can we hasten the movement, and only by taking actions of high value can we enter a Path that is structurally a united matrix of form where all factors that define a complete human life are working in concert; they have all been activated to proceed toward a greater proceeding which always tends toward its highest state. That highest state is always one of perfection.
But there is nothing outside of our lives which is not included in our process of ordered self-realization. We can't step out of it to take hold of its form to change it. To try and change it from within is to try to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. We can't disorder Order from within because Order is ordered and Disorder is no part of it. And yet disorder as a form of order exists as part of it just as nonbeing is another form of being existing as a negation of itself. If nonbeing was no part of being it would have no power to dissolve it but it works from within as another form of beingness, and disorder acting disorderly from within does so as a contrary form of orderliness. And yet it only acts under the aegis of Order and Order will not contradict itself to imbalance the equilibrium that demands we only succeed temporarily. That is the contradiction which can only be solved by a paradox. We must disorder Order though it can't be disordered by any disorder that is against Orderliness which is one of equilibrium. Stasis is maintained and we must fail necessarily.

But the balance of necessary failure must be balanced by possible achievement for the equilibrium of Order which cannot be disordered must be balanced by a disorder that can and must disorder it if equilibrium of Order is to be maintained. And that is the true Path. The Path of ordered advance toward a higher quality of life's self-realization toward perfective realization is not the Path. If we take that Path which is the only path available to take we will be deceived. We will travel and never arrive, if we start to arrive there will be blowback and we will certainly fail. We could never succeed. That's not the design of the universe, nor is it the will of God, nor is it the shape of life, and neither is it even the intent of the Path for the Path as servant of Order intends our failure. Our own self-realization tends towards and finally intends our failure to be realized. Self-realization must of necessity be a contradiction of terms. We cannot succeed, we will not succeed. We must not succeed. If Order is to be Order.
But we must succeed if Orderliness is to be balanced by Disorder but no disorder wholly inside Order's necessary orderliness (which is the essence of its nature) can disorder it such that we can escape our necessity to fail.

And so to achieve true success, one that endures in a life that endures, we have to stop moving, going, and proceeding forward but instead step sideways to a place outside, not completely outside which is impossible but an outside that's still inside, step far enough aside and away if we are to get free of the Order of this universe that necessitates we decay, of its Life that demands we die, of its Pathic Process that intends we fail, and ultimately of its God that rules it, whose holiness cannot allow us to be perfect for to be perfect is to reconcile good and evil, order and disorder, righteousness and sin, and ultimately godliness with what is not-God.

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