Practicing being gentle with yourself helps awaken your genuine heart. This compassion, this clarity, this openness is like something we have forgotten. Lightening up in your practice, sitting there being gentle with yourself you are rediscovering something.
We all have our faults and accomplishments, it is hard to correct our faults as we age, but we must try by doing a little each day. Some days we seem to regress, but the next day keep on trying. It’s not a steady climb, but the overall direction is up.
If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place because the mind is the governing aspect of human life. To correct your mind, rely on not doing, clinging to things and avoid daydreaming. If you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.
Every relationship between individuals bears in it the danger that a wrong turn may be taken, leading to misunderstandings and disagreements. If you remain mindful and aware, you will succeed in avoiding the pitfalls that confront close relationships with others.
Quote: Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day.