I decided to teach my cat a trick today. Step one: ‘Sit.’ Step two: ‘High five.’ Step three: realize my cat has been judging me the entire time and only wants to nap. The trick is clearly on me, but at least I now know who’s in charge in this house…
To know yourself is not to fill yourself with answers, but to empty yourself of all pretense. In that emptiness, wisdom rises like the morning sun, quiet, inevitable and illuminating.