Accept good fortune without showing off when it comes your way. Then you will be able to let it go easily when it is taken from you again.
Receive temporal blessings without ostentation, when they are sent and thou shalt be able to part with them with all readiness and facility when they are taken from thee again.
But there may be some outward obstacle or problem. There is nothing that can stop you from doing whatever you do justly, with self-control, and in service to God. Yes, but something might block one of your actions. When that happens, you can be content with that very obstacle. By gently shifting your mind to accept what is possible instead of what you first planned, a new action takes the place of the old one. This new action fits just as well with living each moment fully.
But there may be some outward let and impediment. Not any, that can hinder thee, but that whatsoever thou dost, thou may do it, justly, temperately, and with the praise of God. Yea, but there may be somewhat, whereby some operation or other of thine may be hindered. And then, with that very thing that doth hinder, thou mayest he well pleased, and so by this gentle and equanimious conversion of thy mind unto that which may be, instead of that which at first thou didst intend, in the room of that former action there succeedeth another, which agrees as well with this contraction of thy life, that we now speak of.