Book of the Essence
You are not mind. You are not body. You are not feeling. It’s easier to express true essence through negation.
Only having dumped from yourself all opinions of a society of who you should be, it is possible to learn who you are. Only having learnt who you are, it is possible to see whom you can become.
Not loving yourself, it’s impossible to experience the same feeling to another. Hating yourself, it’s impossible not to experience the same feeling to another.
Happiness is out of mind limits. Feeling is out of mind limits. Observation covers them all.
Ability to feel makes one living. Ability to think makes one reasonable. Nobody but you can aid in learning yourself.
The fish, who is going down stream, can be washed ashore by inflow. The fish who is going against the stream, may not reach. It’s possible to act without explicit purpose.
Mind will assure you that you are better. Mind will force you to be at war. Only having been tired of blood of victories, it is possible to start wishing to wash hands.
Without having the goal, you will not start moving. Having not started moving, it is impossible to reach. Only the one who has no place to go finally reaches.
Wishing much means to suffer defeat one day. Wishing little means to accept it now. The victory is possible only in the absence of desires but who will desire this victory?
If everyone can aid himself, aid to others will be ceased. But everyone knows how to aid others, and no one how to aid himself.
Being reasonable, you cease to be living. Being responsible, you cease to be living. Being moral, you cease to be living. Only having managed to become them all at own will for a while, you remain them.
Operating the house, it’s possible to do it badly. Operating the country, it’s possible to do it badly. Operating the world, it’s possible to do it badly. The highest skill possible is in mastering yourself.
Having dissolved in the world - you will lose yourself. Having dissolved in the other - you will lose yourself. Only having dissolved in yourself, you will find true yourself.
Joy is not in achievement. Joy is not in comprehension. True joy is in their possibility.
Having learnt others, you will not learn yourself. Without having learnt yourself, it is impossible to learn others. Let everyone think of how much he should do himself.
To answer a question "Who I am" is more difficult, than a question "Whom I can become". But without having answered the first question, it is impossible to answer the second.
The one living forever is the one who never dies. The one who never dies is the one who knows no such thing as death.
To live alone - means to live in suffering. To live together - means to live in suffering. A peace with yourself is necessary at first.
It’s possible to be a holy man – and never reach. It’s possible to be a sinner – and never reach. Reaching yourself has nothing in common with others.
Вильям Л Саймон , Вильям Саймон , Наталья Владимировна Макеева , Нора Робертс , Юрий Викторович Щербатых
Зарубежная компьютерная, околокомпьютерная литература / ОС и Сети, интернет / Короткие любовные романы / Психология / Прочая справочная литература / Образование и наука / Книги по IT / Словари и Энциклопедии