You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
Just don’t seek from another or you’ll be far estranged from Self. I now go on alone meeting it everywhere, it now is just what I am; I now am not it. You must comprehend in this way to merge with thus-ness.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
Internally I am a hermit, and externally I am a prince. Arms mean protection to the poor and destruction of the tyrant. Baba Nanak had not renounced the world but had renounced maya, that is, self and ego.
