In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It Goes On!
Only those who have felt the knife, can understand the wound.
Nothing important comes with instructions.
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact.
When you realize the fact that everything changes and find your composure in it, there you find yourself in nirvana.
If we forgive life for not being what we told it to be, or expected, or wished, or longed for it to be, we forgive ourselves for not being what we might have been also. And then we can be who we really are.
Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone else should behave. But it’s not our task to create an ideal. It’s our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of our soul, conditions are always good enough.
You live in illusion and in the appearance of things. There is a Reality. You are the Reality. But you do not know it.
Do not travel far to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the Truth where you are now, you will never find it.
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert it self.
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day: you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is our, off-limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachments, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let I dissolve back into the sea.
