You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge.
Let your aims be common, and your hearts of one accord, and all of you be of one mind, so you may live well together.
The gulf between I and you is the ego. When the ego is removed the distance disappears and the ‘I’ and ‘you’ also disappear. They merge to become one — and that is love.
The ego isn’t wrong; it’s just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don’t take the ego too seriously.
