We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
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.
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.
Corruption inside is most dangerous, so don’t be corrupt. Begin here first, not out there.
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.
Life is a journey towards the unknown. An empty mind is useful in that journey rather than a mind filled with past.
Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.