When you meet someone, keep your heart and mind open and without any agenda to make them right or wrong. Could you see, hear, feel people just as they really are? This is a powerful practice; only true communication can happen in this open space.
As we shape the situations in our lives we must be aware of the form we want things to take. The closer it comes to completion, the harder it is to change the shape and the more definite it becomes. Beauty or ugliness, utility or failure comes from this process of shaping.
We cannot attain clarity and simplicity by avoiding the world. Do your work, take care of others, practice virtue without expecting any reward and when you understand the higher truths retain an ordinary manner, this is true clarity, true simplicity, true living.
Our independence should not be based on rigidity and immobility of character, but by keeping abreast of the times and changing with them. What endures is the unswerving directive, the inner law of your being, which determines all your actions.
Quote: The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.” Rumi