To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
As you are externally aware, so also you can be inwardly aware of your thoughts and feelings, of your motives and urges, of your prejudices, envies, greed and pride…This outward and inward awareness is a unitary process which brings about a total integration of human understanding.
Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, but it is awareness, from moment to moment.
Corruption inside is most dangerous, so don’t be corrupt. Begin here first, not out there.
All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, which has so unfortunately divided man.