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Kapil Gupta
The mind can go anywhere it wishes. You need not go With It. The mind can entertain any thoughts that it wishes. They have nothing to do with you. For you are not the mind.
Man will take any opportunity to avoid that which is most immediate in his life. He will do anything but the task at hand. He will look at anything besides that which stands inches from his face.
Sheath known as Mind. The mind desires, and
The greatest freedom that we have is the freedom to walk away from ourselves.
There is a wonderful story of a young professional who went to see a Himalayan swami. Swamiji, he said, “I admire your courage. For what a sacrifice you have made. To live as a renunciate. To have given up the entire world and live in a cave.” The swami laughed, and said, “My dear boy. I once lived in the world. And I discovered that in chasing this and that, I lived in constant anxiety and misery. Now I live in complete bliss. My every moment is an overwhelming joy. You have chosen the world and its miseries, and have given up joy and bliss. Tell me, young man. Is it I who is the renunciate?
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If there is one truth that I have learned, it is that unless you find it inside of Today, you will never find it inside of Tomorrow.
Life is simply a joke. An absurdity. A non-linear, haphazard, and unpredictable trail that is fertile for the imagination of hallucinatory human beings.
My friend, there was a day that you were not here. And there will soon be a day when you are no longer here. And once you realize this, you will understand that all there is left to do is play.
The man who is in love with his trade is not a worker. He is an artist. Whether he makes a million dollars or a thousand, he is living in accordance with his nature. And thus his days are filled with joy.
The unbiased honest truth is this: Wealth, success, and luxury do not harm a man. What harms a man is the Attachment to these things.
Human beings tend to become the norm that they are exposed to. This is the astonishing power of environment. You become your surroundings!
Rather than finding the thing that you can imagine yourself becoming, find the thing that you simply cannot imagine yourself Not Becoming.
When your thoughts feel like imposters. And your ideas seem like noise. And your preferences fail to move you. And your pride is easily dropped. You will experience the state of No-Mind.
The Mind Cannot Be Calmed Or Tamed. It Can Only Be Transcended! And it is transcended Not through activities. It is transcended through Understanding.
