Your family is your first frame of reference…You should avail of every kind of lesson that you receive from your family.
To have a body is to suffer. Those who understand this, detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret to you in the same way that the sea is invisible to a fish?
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
If one speaks or acts with pure mind, because of that happiness follows one, even as one’s shadow that never leaves.
