If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.

Lao Tzu

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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

Walter Kaufmann

Attachment constrains our vision so that we are not able to see things from a wider perspective.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.

Self-Enquiry is not asking you to believe or to trust - it is putting a mirror in front of you and asking you to look. Enquiry is suited to many people in the West, because we are more mental. And it is very direct. So unsparing is its look that nothing can escape.

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