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.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
God can be realised through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
As the heat of a fire reduces wood to ashes, the fire of knowledge burns to ashes all karma. Nothing in this world purifies like spiritual wisdom. It is the perfection achieved in time through the path of yoga, the path which leads to the Self within.
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.
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.
Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.
The Eightfold Path: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.
