· Concerted efforts to increase self-knowledge can lead to more effective behavior. We must learn the difference between self-complacent and self-conquering.
· In this world it’s possible for you to find physical gold, but without winning the war within yourself. This wealth could not do anything for you other than perhaps produce a more comfortable place in which to continue your struggle with old conflicts. However, there is an inner gold you can find whose possession fulfills you, regardless of your external circumstances we can call this inner gold “REAL SELF-KNOWLEDGE”; truth you know about yourself for yourself through your self-study. It’s yours because you have visited the world where this new kind of gold exists; you have mined it yourself, and you have to put it in your pocket. This gold can never be taken from your. Its goodness is yours forever. This new inner wealth enriches you by transforming your very own ideas about who you are and what you really want from life. With it everything gets simpler. And the nicest thing about this special spiritual gold is that you can have as much of it as you’re willing to pay for.
· To read certain books that build our self images as being wise and spiritual. These spiritual, “fool’s gold” that keeps trapped in an imaginary world. By contrast, real self-knowledge can be little difficult to take at first delivering well armed blows for our vanity as it shows us how limited and artificial our self-centered thought world has been. But it also provides a glimpse of the expensive world that awaits us. If we will treasure the truth about ourselves that it alone can reveal.
· Great endeavors & hard struggles await those who are converted, but afterwards inexpressible joy. If you want to light a fire, you are troubled by smoke and your eyes water. But in the end you achieve your aim. Now it is written:” OUR GOD IS CONSUMING FIRE “, so we must light the divine fire in us with tears and struggle.
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