I hate it when simple declarative statements are dissected by "lawyer-think." You entirely miss his point doing that. Did he stop and qualify anything? Stop and think. He's in his eighties, FFS. Do you think he's spouting gibberish or something he deeply thought about and saw actually happen? "But this..." and "But that..." -- you're creating your own damn roadblocks. And then wonder why you can't move forward.

Edit to add: Yeah, I'm cranky. But this is something I've seen here over and over. Now for the downvotes to DEAD status.

Edited further to add: He said nothing is withheld, not that you could either do anything or automagically succeed. You can have a revelation -- but still eff it all up, because it's still ultimately up to you. Trust me, I've experienced that myself! Especially the effing it all up part. So don't do that.