Every cell in our body is continuously changing, we are as impermanent as everything else. Thoughts and emotions of being competent or that we’re hopeless rise and fall unceasingly. We are only basing these thoughts on the past, but this too changes.
When we speak of self-sufficiency most people think it is a myth. What we refer to is a supreme connection to oneself and the cosmos around us. This does not preclude community with others, but it does prevent the excess and shortcomings where society is your only source of union.
Being of service to others without expectation of reward, not talking about it but just practicing this way of being, you will be rewarded by the way you feel about yourself. We are always doing things, but there is always more to do. Just step back and ask yourself is all this doing necessary.
All things change, prosperity is followed by decline, evil can be checked but not permanently abolished it always returns. These ideas might produce melancholy, but should not; they ought only to keep us from falling into the illusion that when good fortune comes to us it will last.
Quote: If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.