God laughs when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each other, ‘This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’
You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.
Words lead us to the doorway of truth, but only by contemplating their meaning can we pass through.
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
