To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
If you wish to be free, know you are the Self, the witness of all these, the heart of awareness. Set your body aside; sit in your own awareness. You will be at once happy, forever still, forever free.
To become conscious we must become Self-aware in the awareness of the observer Self-observing.
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.
Open yourself, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
When your sense of self is no longer tied to thought, is no longer conceptual, there is a depth of feeling, of sensing, of compassion, of loving, that was not there when you were trapped in mental concepts. You are that depth.
Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
