"You worry about your life. You have no patience. You always want to change things, make things better, improve this and improve that. It's all a joke. You cannot improve anything. Only reality exists and you are that. Only consciousness exists and you are that. Only love exists and you are that. If you only realized who you were you would be the happiest person that ever lived, and I mean happy, totally happy, unchanging happiness. Is there such a thing?
Yes there is. Unchanging peace. Unchanging love. But you have chosen to identify with the maya (illusion), with the unreality, and so you think you suffer. You believe your life is not what it should be. You compare yourself to someone else. You want to make changes. As you know by now, when you make those changes they only last a short time, then you're back where you were before.
The wise person, therefore, does really not look to change anything. They become quiet. They have patience. They work on themselves. They watch their thoughts, watch their actions and observe themselves getting angry, observe themselves getting depressed, observe themselves getting jealous and envious and the rest of it. Little by little they realize, 'That's not me. That's hypnosis, that's a lie.' They do not react to their condition.
To the extent that they do not react to their condition, to that extent do they become free. They no longer care what anybody else is doing. They compare themselves with no one.They compete with no one. They simply watch themselves. They observe themselves. They see the mental confusion. They don't run around shouting, 'I am absolute reality. I am God. I am consciousness.' Rather, they see where they're coming from and they leave everyone else alone."
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