“I hold no interest in the tapestry of politics, culture, or religion. I lack the mental aptitude and intellectual capacity to debate nuances of esoteric philosophy and abstract ethical principles. I cannot repose faith in a national ethos that promotes avariciousness, mediocrity, and hedonism. I find no reassurance and emotional wellbeing in adopting religious piety, which requires acceptance and belief of intangible and empirically unprovable concepts and things. It is foolish to squander an earthly life in pursuit of a perfect afterlife, of which there is no evidence. Nor can I endorse suicide because it accomplishes nothing other than terminating a person’s opportunity to meld meaning out of the starkness of existence. I exert no power over external things and gain nothing from resisting fate. I need to accept fate calmly and dispassionately, make productive use of my modest allotment of time, and not waste the spark of existence. I can discover the object of my earnest pursuit only within the flickering self. I am responsible for my actions, which I can examine and control through rigorous exertion of self-discipline.”
“Knowledge of the self is perhaps the most truth we will ever be able to glean in a capricious world of darkness, evil, and ignorance.”
“Maybe, just maybe, it all worked out perfectly and you have not realized it yet. Sometimes not getting what we expect is better, be open to all possibilities.”
“Thinking is the most outstanding trait of human beings. Humankind’s innate tools include the capacity and desire to acquire new knowledge and use such concepts in a creative manner to enhance their sense of personal security, appreciation, and enjoyment of life. Humankind’s intrinsic curiosity and ability to think and to be contemporaneously aware of our act of believing and doubting along with possessing an array of other mental qualities forms our self-awareness as a people. This concept of self-awareness, when viewed as part of an integrated mental system, separates us from other members of the animal kingdom.”
“There is nothing wrong in following a teacher in the path of self-awareness, but the moment one begins to see that teacher as the authority of one s life, immediately one goes astray from the path of self-realization and indeed from the path of truth, and eventually ends up in the same kind of trap of doctrines and laws that one wanted to be free from in the first place. That s how all religions have been born. Loyalty to a teacher or messiah, inadvertently leads to psychological slavery, and in often cases, the enslaved is not even aware of the enslavement. It s a kind of illusion one lives in, where the teacher s word or the prophet s doctrines become gospel in the life of an individual. Hence, all shortcomings of that teacher or prophet creep into the life of his followers as well.”
“Don t allow your ego to become a barrier between you and others, between you and all the beauty of this world.”
“The human mind is the artist of our mutable state of inwardness. External action signals to other people our inner composition. We control our present state of happiness. Each personal action taken or not undertaken subtlety or profoundly alters whom we were, influences whom we now are, and amends who we might become. Our shifting self-image controls our present state of personal happiness.”
“Trust your inner guidance and follow your heart, for your soul has your blueprint and the universe has your back.”
“It is necessary to monitor your behavior if you wish to change it. Awareness is essential.”
“An ocean has never said It s only a drop . Waste not a single moment, an opportunity to show your love, to live your truth. Your life becomes filled by your thoughts, words, intentions and actions or drained by these very things. Each drop creates an ocean of abundance or a desert of despair.”
“I can influence others, but I m not responsible for others.”
“There is a fine line between challenging yourself and overwhelming yourself.”
“As you dig your teeth into your assumptions, your teeth become sharper. You can dig deeper. You become what the world needs simply by helping yourself. It’s not easy, but it is worth it. The truth, as they say, hurts. But they also say it sets you free.”
“The vast majority of adults have never met themselves.”
“Self-awareness is like an onion. There are multiple layers to it, and the more you peel them back, the more likely you re going to start crying at inappropriate times.”
“Through the perspective of complete awareness, the world is orderly (vyavasthit), and through the perspective that lacks awareness, it appears to be disorderly (avyavasthit).”
“Awareness of what is beneficial and harmful is that whereby one does not take any entanglements along with him.”