The tiger does not come to eat your fruits. His prescribed food is animal flesh. But man’s food is vegetables, fruits, grains, and milk products.
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?
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.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Direct the mind resolutely towards God, restraining the senses in their various seats, and looking on the state of the body as a matter of indifference. Realise your oneness with God, remaining continually intent on identifying with its nature…for what use is there in other, empty things?
