Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.
The greatest freedom is to be obedient and faithful to God. As we yield ourselves to God’s love and mercy, we are liberated from the suffering of sins. No longer are we dominated by unreasonable fears, compulsions and addictions. We live in peace and unity with all people. Despair and rage pass away.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it…
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
