To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
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.
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.
The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure… Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?