Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.
Open yourself, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
