Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. Strength may be physical, or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.
