Direct the mind resolutely towards God, restraining the senses in their various seats, and looking on the state of the body as a matter of indifference. Realise your oneness with God, remaining continually intent on identifying with its nature…for what use is there in other, empty things?
Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.
Slowly and steadily cleanse the mind; sharpen the intellect, purify the senses, and win grace.
If one speaks or acts with pure mind, because of that happiness follows one, even as one’s shadow that never leaves.
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what’s more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard; never get muddled.
