When our hearts are empty, we embrace the things, thoughts and people.
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.
It is not that you read a book, pass an examination and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.
Life is a journey towards the unknown. An empty mind is useful in that journey rather than a mind filled with past.