Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
As you are externally aware, so also you can be inwardly aware of your thoughts and feelings, of your motives and urges, of your prejudices, envies, greed and pride…This outward and inward awareness is a unitary process which brings about a total integration of human understanding.
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
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.
