Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.
We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.
The churning separates the butter from the milk. In the same manner, through cosmic processes and upheavals of heat and cold, the five fundamental elements - earth, water, fire, air and space were separated and Earth, this Ball of Butter, emerged as the product of the churning.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.

