Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
Take a look at your natural river. Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don’t you see that there is no effort if you’re riding with your river?
Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do to yourself.
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
