Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance.
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realise that each thought creates according to its own nature. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
