The knowledge in your mind is immeasurably greater than all that you learnt, in all manner of ways, since birth, as a child, at school, in life, in the world, in your profession. This immeasurable knowledge sometimes percolates into the dream experience; sometimes it comes as intuitive ideas, as creative feelings.
From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there’s no grief – so how fear?
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
All anger is about something which has already happened. Is it of any use getting angry about something which you cannot alter?
Words can confer strength; they can drain it off; Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies; words can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one’s words sweet, soft, and pleasant.
