Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality

The world is full of sorrow. The root of sorrow is attachment. The uprooting of sorrow means the uprooting, the dropping of attachments.

Do I need to upset myself in order to swing into action and do something about it? You know, there’s an assumption that if you don’t upset yourself, if you don’t train people to upset themselves, they’re not going to do anything. But look: Here’s someone who doesn’t have enough to eat, and that’s a calamity. Now, you’ve gone and upset yourself. We’

Plunge into the din of battle and keep your heart at peace at the lotus feet of the Lord. But there’s a fear, see. The people who trained us, the people who programmed us, feared that if we didn’t upset ourselves, we wouldn’t do anything. It never occurred to them that when you upset yourself, you have less energy to do something and you have less

My God, how childish can people get? And they don’t know their childishness. They’ve got to blame somebody. But, no. Maturity is understanding that no one is to blame. Or better still, and more accurately put, maturity is not giving yourself the childish emotional outlet of blaming others or yourself but, rather, seeing what went wrong and setting

Nothing in this entire world has the power to upset you. Nothing. As a matter of fact, nothing has ever upset you. Nobody has ever hurt you. You stupidly hurt yourself.

This has been stamped into you. You’ve been programmed with this. You’ve been conditioned this way. But this is what you’ve got to understand. You see, you don’t have to do anything for enlightenment. You don’t have to do anything for liberation and for spirituality. All you have to do is see something, understand something. If you would understand

Maturity is when you no longer blame anyone. You don’t blame others, you don’t blame yourself. You see what’s wrong, and you set about remedying it. That’s one pretty good sign of maturity.

Are you getting some inkling of what it would mean if you really grasped this? You’d be above it all. That’s one nice definition of spirituality. Spirituality means no longer being at the mercy of an event, or a person, or anything else. I didn’t say not to love people. I said, You’re not at their mercy anymore. You’re no longer at the mercy of an

“For peace of heart, resign as general manager of the universe.” I’m not the general manager; I do what I can. I plunge in, and the result is left to God, to life, to destiny.