Desire is not appeased by enjoyment, as fire fed with oil becomes more intense. No one has ever more than enough rice, barley, gold, cattle or women. Abandon therefore inordinate desire. When a mind finds neither good nor ill in all objects but looks on all with an equal eye, then every thing yields its…
When knowledge is pure, real, universal, independent from works and exempt from defects, then the varieties of substance, which are the fruit of the tree of desire, cease to exist in matter. https://archetypealgorithm.earth
Mind alone is the cause of bondage and liberty for mankind If attracted to the world they become bound If free from the world, that is liberty https://archetypealgorithm.earth
The mind must be restrained in the heart till it comes to and end, that is knowledge, that is liberty All the rest are extensions of the ties which bind us to this life https://archetypealgorithm.earth
When one has freed their mind from sloth, distraction and vacillation They become as it were delivered from the mind That is the highest point https://archetypealgorithm.earth
If the thoughts of someone were fixed on the spirit, as they are on the things in this world, who would not be free from bondage https://archetypealgorithm.earth
Let us strive to purify our thoughts What one thinks, that they are This is the ancient secret By the serenity of ones thoughts, we blot out all actions, whether good or bad Dwelling within the spirit with serene thoughts, we obtain imperishable happiness https://archetypealgorithm.earth
As a fire without fuel becomes quiet in its place Thus do the thoughts, when all activity ceases, becomes quiet in their place Even in a mind which loves the truth and has gone to rest in itself, there arise, when it is deluded by the objects of sense, wrongs resulting from former acts. For…