Efforts
Alone can fulfil us
April 29th 2012
It is natural that you would want to improve the conditions of your outer life, but endeavour above all to know and accept the truths that can improve your inner life. Whatever you gain externally, you will always feel dissatisfied, for you only find true satisfaction in the efforts you make yourself – your efforts of will, intelligence and imagination. What’s more, you will have noticed that when you have achieved something yourself, you feel fulfilled, whereas whatever you gain – even money – without having done anything does not give you the same satisfaction. Yes, you have noticed; you are aware of that, but you still carry on expecting everything from outside yourself. This is why you are constantly dogged by the feeling that something is missing.
So, whatever you possess, whatever you are given, never relinquish inner work. Until the very last moment, do not relinquish it.