Inner battle

Ultimately, our battle is with ourselves. Whether in our activities in society, or whether in historical, political or economic developments, everything essentially boils down to a struggle between positive and negative forces.

Be true to your heart

It is human nature to desire recognition and to want to look better than what we are. When that desire seizes control of us, it is easy to lose sight of who we are and what our real purpose is. Spiritual corruption begins from there. The best thing is to be true to one’s heart.

Complaining

Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.

A human being is a part of the whole

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourse...lves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein

Forget relationships and learn how to relate

In a better world, with more meditative people, with a little more enlightenment spread over the earth, people will love, love immensely, but their love will remain a relating not a relationship. If you enjoy being with somebody, you would like to enjoy it more and more. If you enjoy the intimacy, you would like to explore the intimacy more and more. But it has to be a commitment from one heart to another heart. It has not even to be verbalized, because to verbalize it is to profane it. It has to be a silent commitment; eye to eye, heart to heart, being to being. It has to be understood, not said.

Insults

If somebody has insulted you, feel thankful to him that he has given you an opportunity to feel a deep wound. He has opened a wound in you. The wound may be created by many many insults that you have suffered in your whole life; he may not be the cause of all the suffering, but he has triggered a process. Just close your room, sit silently, with no anger for the person but with total awareness of the feeling that is arising in you — the hurt feeling that you have been rejected, that you have been insulted. And then you will be surprised that not only is this man there: all the men and all the women and all the people that have ever insulted you will start moving in your memory. You will start not only remembering them, you will start reliving them. You will be going into a kind of primal. Feel the hurt, feel the pain, don’t avoid it. That’s why in many therapies the patient is told not to take any drugs before the therapy begins, for the simple reason that drugs are a way to escape from your inner misery. They don’t allow you to see your wounds, they repress them. They don’t allow you to go into your suffering and unless you go into your suffering, you cannot be released from the imprisonment of it.

Life is a journey

Life is a continuity always and always. There is no final destination it is going towards. Just the pilgrimage, just the journey in itself is life, not reaching to some point, no goal--just dancing and being in pilgrimage, moving joyously, without bothering about any destination. What will you do by getting to a destination? Nobody has asked this, because everybody is trying to have some destination in life. But the implications... If you really reach the destination of life, then what? Then you will look very embarrassed. Nowhere to go...you have reached to the final destination--and in the journey you have lost everything. You had to lose everything. So standing naked at the final destination, you will look all around like an idiot: what was the point? You were hurrying so hard, and you were worrying so hard, and this is the outcome.

Never regret

You will never regret genuine kindness. You will never regret making the most of whatever is available to you. Though it may be painful at the time, you will never regret being truthful. And you will never regret giving your best effort to whatever task is at hand. You will never regret the time you spend with those you love. And whether or not it is appreciated, you will never regret giving a hel...ping hand to those in need. You will never regret taking time to enjoy life’s beauty. You won’t regret the time you take to learn. When faced with a difficult situation, you’ll never regret choosing the most positive way forward. And even though they will demand much of you, you will not regret taking on the meaningful challenges. Live true to who you are, and true to your highest possibilities. Though you won’t avoid all of life’s difficulties, you can avoid the painful regrets.

Living As Your True Divine Nature

Are you living as your true nature in your everyday life with natural ease?

All that is required for you to live the freedom of your divinity is to again become familiar with returning back to your true nature; being it and sinking deeply into living as it. Now you can and all with complete simplicity.
Then, through living as your true nature you will see, not mentally but through your own direct experience, that your true divine nature is always here at all times, in all situations and life circumstances and at no time is it ever possible to lose or leave it. Deep insights into what is involved in living as your true nature will also be noticed by you in a very short time. Then it will become natural to simply stay right here. This is not some stale old chore which you have got to 'do'. It is also not a way to get somewhere or something. It is simply uncovering your truly natural state, which is already perfect, and living as this One. Through resting here as your heart, your insights into how life really works will naturally undermine the foundation of life as you customarily know it. Then large cracks will begin to form in the package of the person which you know as me, myself, I. Through these cracks more of your true nature will be seen and chunks of false beliefs, concepts, feelings, emotions, thoughts, and general mind informed movements will fall away in a very short space of time. Poetically speaking, the motion is drawing your true nature through the personality package to the point where it takes over and lives itself. The limitation of the personality is then transcended and it is free to fall away. The time scale will be dramatically reduced for you to stabilise as your true nature, if you set your heart to it and start today.

Trust

Trust is difficult to earn and it is easily lost—the trust built over a decade can be shattered in an instant by one offhanded remark or deed. A person who is not swayed from their chosen path, even during the most trying times, will ultimately find that he or she is trusted by all.