Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

life is a river always flowing. do not hold onto things. work hard.

One day, a long time from now you’ll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of.

If one holds oneself dear, one should diligently watch oneself. Let the wise man keep vigil during any of the three watches of the night.

One should first establish oneself in what is proper; then only should one instruct others. Thus the wise man will not be reproached.

One should do what one teaches others to do; if one would train others, one should be well controlled oneself. Difficult, indeed, is self-control.

One truly is the protector of oneself; who else could the protector be? With oneself fully controlled, one gains a mastery that is hard to gain.

The evil a witless man does by himself, born of himself and produced by himself, grinds him as a diamond grinds a hard gem.

Just as a single creeper strangles the tree on which it grows, even so, a man who is exceedingly depraved harms himself as only an enemy might wish.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

Whoever, on account of perverted views, scorns the Teaching of the Perfected Ones, the Noble and Righteous Ones — that fool, like the bamboo, produces fruits only for self destruction.

By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil left undone; by oneself is one made pure. Purity and impurity depend on oneself; no one can purify another.

Let one not neglect one’s own welfare for the sake of another, however great. Clearly understanding one’s own welfare, let one be intent upon the good.

MEDITATION is like STRETCHING for the MIND. With regular practice you become more OPEN & FLEXIBLE.

I am a very private person, yet I am an open book.
If you don’t ask…I won’t tell.

Whether it’s your job, relationship, or school, you cannot commit to what you do not love.

People who are constantly seeking
and receiving sensual stimulation
are being conditioned by it.

To have a pure consciousness,
awake, and free from any conditioning,
is what we seek in all authentic spirituality.

To realize this we need to learn how to
transform any sensation we receive
based on the truth of that sensation.

This requires in-depth retrospective meditation
where we go over all the events of the day
and measure our reactions-
mechanically automatic-or conscious,
based on truth, or lie,
to any stimulus,
including our own thoughts.

Do you realize how much goes on under your skin and inside your body? Our heart pumps blood for us and our organs go to work for us to try and keep our insides as healthy as possible. We are mean to our insides at times. Must we all remember our body works as a unit. When the physical body isn’t healthy neither is the mind.