The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore, one should learn contentment.
It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings, which is the way to bring peace to all.
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit.
One is absolutely sickened, not by crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
