In our everyday affairs we clearly see the need for placing things in their right order. We know the foundation of the home must come before the roof; we realize we must trim the vegetables before cooking them. The very same principle of the right order of things must prevail in our psychic life if we are to avoid confusion and achieve success. This single idea, faithfully understood and applied, could mark the turning point of your life.
A person wants to be happy. Fine. He can be happy. But, if he place happiness as his first order of business, he will not find it. He will find temporary thrills or distractions, but not abiding contentment. He must be proceed in the right order. Happiness follows a sincere efforts at SELF-DISCOVERY. We cannot possibly be happy, if we are strangers to ourselves. Self-understanding is the door to stillness. Let’s see how it goes in other areas:
- Change yourself, rather than working to change others.
- Abandon the false before seeking the true.
- Be loving and you will be loved.
- Attend to the reason why you felt hurt, not to those who hurt you.
- Set inner integrity before good works.
- Place thinking before speaking.
- Be a real person, then a social person.
- Understand yourself, then try to know others.
- Destroy negative attitudes, not negative conditions.
- Place small efforts before great determinations.