When our hearts are empty, we embrace the things, thoughts and people.
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.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. The guru can give you words; he can give you an explanation, the symbols of the mind, but the symbol is not the real, and if you are caught in the symbol, you will never find the way.
Life is a journey towards the unknown. An empty mind is useful in that journey rather than a mind filled with past.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, which has so unfortunately divided man.