Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.
Learning is retained through putting into practice; family prestige is maintained through good behavior; a respectable person is recognised by his excellent qualities; and anger is seen in the eyes.
Just as rivers flow from east and west to merge with the one sea, forgetting that they were ever separate rivers, so all beings lose their separateness when they eventually merge into pure Being.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
Trust God completely and he will solve all difficulties. Faithfully leave everything to Him and He will see to everything.
