- Frankness and Humility
Very often we are really cowards, not humble, and sometimes it is a form of arrogance, not humbleness.
A man who is truly humble is fearless.
There should be no fear of criticism or any other fear at all.
- Work
Working to live and living to work is a circle.
It does not satisfy me. I prefer to parallel.
I work to live - but I live to realise life.
I live to work, but I work that others may live.
- Life
Life is an art.
Spiritual life or Sadhana is still greater art.
Every stroke of the brush matters very much - we should carefully plan it and do every action after great thought.
Thought, word and deed must be delicate and purposeful.
- Desire and Pleasure
It is common knowledge to students of psychology that Desire or Craving, the Urge, is really a sensation of pain.
The second stage is the attainment of the desired object or experience.
Take drinking of beer for example. It is admitted that the first time, beer tasted bad - it was painful drinking it.
Beer has not changed, it is painful even now.
Second stage too, is pain.
But since habit has made the second stage, a relieving of the tension created by the first, it is associated or identified with the third stage - quiescence of mind - which is happiness.
- Humility
Like the frames of spectacles, some people will bend only if they are in hot water!