Most people believe only in degrees of jeopardy and live in degrees of greater and lesser anxiety, but never in true relaxation. The assurance of safety is a vital and wonderful resources that we need to share with one another.
Paul Richards
Source: Wild Attraction, a Ruthlessly Practical Guide to Extraordinary Relationship, Pages: 212
Such a person has nothing to acquire, nor anything to shun. He is untainted by the defects of life, untouched by its sorrow.
He does not come into being nor go out, though he appears to come and go in the eyes of the beholder.
Even religious duties are found to be unnecessary. …His mind has given up its restlessness, and he rests in the bliss that is his essential nature. Such bliss is possible only by self-knowledge, not by any other means. Hence, one should apply oneself constantly to self-knowledge–this alone is one's duty.
"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll now right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for."
"Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of duty. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires."
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