Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self.
When you can bear your own silence, you are free.
You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.
How can you say you are peaceful if you are still identified with mind?
The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.
Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.
Don't waste time thinking about what could have been when you could be thinking about what could be.
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.
And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
I keep three hoes, But don't'call me Santa