Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
If you wish to be free, know you are the Self, the witness of all these, the heart of awareness. Set your body aside, sit in your own awareness. You will at once be happy, forever still, forever free.
This is true knowledge: to seek the Self as the true end of wisdom always. To seek anything else is ignorance.
Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t but because you can.
The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly.
