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.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
To become conscious we must become Self-aware in the awareness of the observer Self-observing.
Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
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.
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realise how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
