There is an optimistic message there, yes—equanimity and internal locus of control and so on are valuable and useful skills. But if you’re not ready to learn them, and you’re not in a place where you are prepared to walk the path to truly internalize them, they can feel impossible, and make you feel inadequate and incompetent, and demoralize you, and lead to depression, or dissociation. Those things may also happen if you are prepared, but the difference is whether you’re able to get through to the other side.
There is an optimistic message there, yes—equanimity and internal locus of control and so on are valuable and useful skills. But if you’re not ready to learn them, and you’re not in a place where you are prepared to walk the path to truly internalize them, they can feel impossible, and make you feel inadequate and incompetent, and demoralize you, and lead to depression, or dissociation. Those things may also happen if you are prepared, but the difference is whether you’re able to get through to the other side.
If you were wizardborn, Mr. Potter, you would know to take it seriously, when a powerful magus tells you only to beware.