Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent school-masters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
In order to become a success, a business doesn’t just have to do well, it has to do better than its competitors. Being number one isn’t just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on.
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.
Only the person having firm conviction and iron volition can attain strength and energy. At no stage of karma does he ever hesitate.
