If we try to protect ourselves from suffering, we become fearful and alienated, caring only for the people close to us. If we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort we suffer, yet if we don’t close off and let our heart hurt, we discover our kinship with all beings.
Nearly all of us have fears, frustrations and inhibitions. To overcome them takes courage and initiative. If our problem is fear and timidity, we need a friend to encourage us, give us guidance and support us so we can face our fears, but they cannot solve our problems for us.
What good is it to spend your life accumulating material things or conforming your behavior to others’ conventions? Live simply, virtuously true to your nature, ignore time, relinquishing ideas and concepts, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.
Political structures change as do nations, but life and our basic life’s needs remain eternally the same, these needs cannot be changed no matter our disposition or education. The need for harmony can be achieved when a leader and people work together in cooperation with a unity of purpose.
Quote: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie