A level of experience is a connected realm of thoughts, feelings and mediated reflections in which some particular value is at stake and for which there is no resolution at that level. The most common example is that of what is called egoic or personal psychology in which the stake is the value of the self. The corresponding level is therefore that in which this value is taken to be real, to be in a sense its simulation of God. Once a term is given this master reality then everything which can affect it, directly or indirectly, also becomes real, and since these causes are endless and infinitely knotted together every move that favours one disfavours another. There is no final strategy to 'solve' the problem posed by this level. It is only by finding yourself on a higher level in which that stake no longer plays its key role but is simply an object among others of a different game that you can be free of it. If there is a path to such transcendence, a path that can't be entered but only approached blindly, then the only thing you can do is to try to arrange things so that the intensity of the forces mobilised on the original level weakens as you approach it rather than strengthens. Such a weakening can only be an adumbration of the higher level, a sort of faith in its existence while it is still largely unseen. So it is not a matter of cultivating virtues but of strengthening the intuition of the illusory nature of the stake around which everything dances.