Love Letters to Life

Wake up and remember. In all your actions, remember that which is watching them. In all your thoughts, let your focus be on that which is behind them. You have to awaken to that place where there is neither action, nor thought, nor movement. It is found beyond space and time. It is found where peace, bliss, and nirvana dwell.
Once that is found, there is nothing further to attain.

Asleep or awake, if this longing, this thirst, this remembrance, is in your every breath – if it is the whole focus of your vision – then nothing else needs to be done. Thirst, and thirst alone, is enough to attain it.

It is very important to remain alert to the kind of wealth that is found on the periphery of life. For only those who realize its illusory nature will set out to search for the treasure that is hidden at the very center of life.
Finding this wealth will destroy poverty forever, because such wealth can never be taken away from you, and only that which cannot be taken away from you is your own wealth, your personal wealth.
That which cannot be taken away cannot be found either, because that which can be found can also be lost. Inner wealth simply is. It is everywhere; one simply has to recognize it. In fact, to recognize it is to attain it

One truth I witness every day is that one cannot live without spirituality. Without spirituality something in a person remains empty and unfulfilled. This emptiness will start to ache, but you will find no way to fill it

Only those who never set out on the journey can be called defeated. The one who sets out has already won half the battle. And the defeats that come in between are not defeats; they are only the backdrops against which the victories can stand out in their greater glory

Truth is manifesting in every moment, in everything that is happening. It is being perpetually expressed. All that is needed are the eyes to see it; its light is ever-present.
I planted a sapling a year ago, now it has begun to flower. Before this happened there was a year of waiting. Spiritual life is the same.
Be prayerful and wait – sow the seeds and wait for the flowers to come. Patience is the life-breath of meditation. Nothing can happen before its time. Everything takes time to grow.

You are seeing darkness, aren’t you? See it in its totality. Just don’t run away from it. Live in it, wake up in it.
You are running away and you are getting tired. Escaping from darkness will not bring light, only a deeper darkness. It is not a question of darkness at all. It is a question of being asleep.
Wake up, and the darkness will be gone. Waking up is light.

For, as you say, “What is the point of getting upset when the birds have already eaten the crops”?

The ocean takes care of the waves, and the waves are forever carefree. The sky takes care of the stars, and the stars are forever blissful.
But man worries: he drowns in misery, he is overshadowed by anguish, because he falls into the madness of taking care of himself by himself.

Can’t you yourself see that you have boarded two boats at the same time?