In any situation we can find out what is true by studying ourselves; look at all your emotions, both the pleasant and the painful, everything. There is a lot of encouragement to do this and self-cultivation gives us the method. You have to find out for yourself what is true.
Our minds never rest in their hunger for satisfaction. If we satisfy one desire and get what we want, we only want more, it never ends. Learn how to eliminate desire, accept your shortcomings, eliminate your mind’s hunger for outward satisfaction.
Since the advent of civilization, we have exchanged our natural harmony for ego-orientated lifestyles. Clinging to our old habitual ways of doing things keeps us chained to a lifestyle that violates our true nature. We have the ways and means to liberate ourselves, just look.
We are often among people who don’t belong to our own sphere. In this case we should be aware not to become intimate with them through force of habit. Maintaining sociability without intimacy is the only attitude towards such people, giving us freedom.
Quote: We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. – Voltaire