The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
Take a look at your natural river. Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don’t you see that there is no effort if you’re riding with your river?
He is the true hero who fights to protect the helpless; though cut limb from limb, flees not the field.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Appreciate fully what you are eating, enjoy it fully, breathing and smelling the aroma to add to the taste, chewing slowly and well, to taste more and to digest better. Discover the subtleties of taste. Gently keep bringing the wandering mind back to tasting fully what you’re eating. Feel the difference! Give thanks for the chance to be able to enjoy what you eat.
