Rituals that are performed with the desire of attaining salvation also help a man to achieve growth and progress in this world.
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door, and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
No one who does good deeds will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come. When such people die, they go to other realms where the righteous live.
For him who has completed the journey, for him who is sorrowless, for him who from everything is wholly free, for him who has destroyed all ties, the fever of passion exists not… He is like a pool, unsullied by mud; to such a balanced one, life’s wanderings do not arise. Calm is his mind, calm is his speech, calm is his action, who, rightly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly peaceful and equipoised.
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
Many people ‘react’ and then ‘regret’. Learn therefore to ‘reflect’ and then ‘respond’.
