The more you open your heart, the more challenges come along that make you want to shut it. The more you practice loving kindness, the more you are going to see everything about yourself. You cannot do this work in a safety zone; you must go about living your life like everyone else.
When you make demands on others without understanding them, you thwart their development. Forcing others to fulfill your ambitions destroys their individuality. Pushing your will and ideas on others on to how to conduct their life will only bring their resentment
Any fragment of the mind apart from heart, spirit, human community, and the natural law of the universe is going against your own true nature. Cleanse yourself of all the cobwebs and cluttered fragments that paralyze the mind. This way you function as your own holistic healer.
If you are serious and composed, you will have the clarity of mind needed to come to terms with the innumerable impressions that pour in. At the beginning of things, it is important to have this clarity, the beginning holds the seeds of all that is to follow.
Quote: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.