|
What you seek seeks you, but won't appear unless you stop striving for what you want. The essence of true life is to live in faith. Faith trusts what life gives. Thieves take. Saints give. What you are looking for will never be what you strive to accumulate. You cannot 'get' the thing you really need. Rather, what you truly desire comes to you willingly. Simply let it be. Desire nothing and all your desires are filled. Give, and what you give comes back ten times more. What you take is taken from you. This is the secret of the aphorism: For every joy, there is a price to pay.
Flip this as a turning phrase: For every price you pay, a joy. Suffer on purpose to give. Take, and what you have is taken from you in suffering. Either way, you suffer.
What happens if you smoke? Health is taken. What happens if you go to the gym and suffer exercise? Health is given. Did you need the cigarettes or do you need health?
It's never what you say that arrives in a changed state. It's what you do.
"I hear and I forget. I see and I learn. I do and I understand."
.
|