Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
To have a body is to suffer. Those who understand this, detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” When you seek nothing, you’re on the Path.
Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own first.
Choose your own way, to suit your own taste, temperament and capacity. There’s no need to criticise or condemn those who follow a different path. Spiritual hunger is the same in all – the ‘food’ to satisfy their hunger may vary.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.
