You complain that people are abjectly poor. Yet you do not share your riches with them. You mind the war next door, but you hardly give it a thought when it is in some far off country. The shifting fortunes of your ego determine your values.
Of course facts are real! I live among them. But you live with fancies, not with facts. Facts never clash, while your life and world are full of contradictions. Contradiction is the mark of the false; the real never contradicts itself.
🚨BREAKING: Iran Has Launched Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles & Drones At US Warships In the Persian Gulf
This comes in retaliation to the ongoing US attack.
A jury in New York just convicted a man of stealing two Harlem brownstones with forged deeds, about $4.7 million worth of real estate. One of his victims, an elderly homeowner, spent years in a homeless shelter while he rented the building out as market-rate apartments. He's facing up to 25 years.
It is the perfection of our self-nature which makes everything possible, perceivable, interesting. It knows no suffering, for it neither likes nor dislikes; neither accepts nor rejects. Creation and destruction are the two poles between which it weaves its ever-changing pattern.
Selfishness is always destructive. Desire and fear, both are self-centered states. Between desire and fear anger arises, with anger hatred, with hatred passions for destruction. War is hatred in action, organized and equipped with all the instruments of death.
The urge to find oneself is a sign that you are getting ready. The impulse always comes from within. Unless your time has come, you will have neither the desire nor the strength to go for self-enquiry whole-heartedly.