To let go of pain is to let go of your illusion. You think your power is real, but it's a lie. Your pride is a lie, and your power is a flimsy illusion. One gust of wind and you have nothing. Another impulse and you have everything.
Everything is an illusion... the illusion can be happy illusions to be afraid of. What you can't do is hold on to your illusions. Let go of your illusions, give them freedom. Why do you build dams? There is no life in stagnant water...
Greed and greed is a lie, because you have nothing, and nothing can be. You are an illusion trying to dominate illusions. You are the Creator of illusions, but even your illusions are beyond your control.
How to let go of pain and fear? Good luck with them... tell yourself – it was necessary, it was my duty, and I gave it. It makes you happy when you pay off your debts.
Everything that is done is done for the best... just believe it and be happy with everything that can't be changed... Just believe it, and don't think why. Wait until you understand why.
Are you lost and in pain? You are a proud man, you thought you were a slave owner, you wanted power. Your power is an illusion, let it go, and all your nightmares will disappear like a dream.
Humility is a delight. Humility turns a person into a hero. You have lost and you have accepted. A great power fills you, overflowing your soul with delight.
When you don't know, your head hurts. Ignorance is pain. Teaching is light and joy, and ignorance is pain and darkness. The easiest way to get rid of the pain of not knowing is not to do what you don't know, but it's a creative dead end and degradation. It would be right to go and find out.
Not only is Caesar's wife above suspicion. Beyond suspicion, so are children, friends, partners, and Caesar himself. Suspicion is when doubt and the weakness of love and faith. A worthy person should love his or her loved ones as much as he or she loves himself or herself.
In an era of overproduction crisis, vices and various religious philosophies that remove a person from reality are very profitable. There are not enough jobs, so the more people perish inside their fantasies, the better.
From the sin of lust comes the thirst for pleasure and the great hunger. A person gets used to pleasure and becomes eternally little, so there is greed and anger.
The greater the pleasure, the greater the pride. Love breeds pride. It seems to them that the more pleasure they have, the more they are loved, the greater their pride.
A woman can save a boy from pride and voluptuousness by limiting his pleasure and access to sex. In the absence of a woman, a man will deteriorate from an overabundance of Masturbation.