People think to inflate their happiness with the “air” of false fulfillment. The ego, however, punctures even valid undertakings with the needle of pride, and deflates them to insignificance. Only when the balloon of happiness is attached to the flow of inner joy is true fulfillment found in everything.
Every insult you hurl at others is like a boomerang: it will return, and wound you.
Were God never to nourish our hearts with His love, our very devotion for Him would become desiccated, like a river after years of no rain.
People who cling too rigidly to religious dogmas reveal a lack of confidence in their beliefs! They fear questioning lest their system of thought melt away like a snowman under a hot sun.
The ego is like a sliver of glass in the sun: Any light it emits only reflects the sunlight of God’s presence behind it. The more one hides from that true light, the less one can know of happiness, and the more one must know of misery.
Our lives, like puffs of wind on a handful of dust, soon become nothing. Don’t base your self-definition on what can never last. Base it on your eternal reality, in God.
Every fulfillment, sooner or later, is cancelled out by a disappointment; every success is replaced by a failure; every joy must yield, in time, to sorrow; every “up” is balanced by a “down.” Isn’t it ironic that, after countless incarnations, we never win a single game? The sum total of all our striving always ends in that final cipher: ZERO!
Lovingly tend every relationship, like a garden, until it yields the rich harvest of love.
