everything you see and use it as material for something else
—over and over again. So that the world is continually
renewed.
- When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm
they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you’ll
feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of
good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which
case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil
may differ from theirs. In which case they’re misguided and
deserve your compassion. Is that so hard? - Treat what you don’t have as nonexistent. Look at what
you have, the things you value most, and think of how much
you’d crave them if you didn’t have them. But be careful.
Don’t feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them
—that it would upset you to lose them. - Self-contraction: the mind’s requirements are satisfied by
doing what we should, and by the calm it brings us. - Discard your misperceptions.
Stop being jerked like a puppet.Limit yourself to the present.Understand what happens—to you, to others.