The World Is Indeed A Mixture Of

To Work Without Attachment Is To Work Without The Expectation Of Reward Or Fear Of Any Punishment In This World Or The Next. Work So Done Is A Means To The End, And God Is The End.

It Is Very Pleasant To Scratch An Itching Ring-worm, But The Sensation One Gets Afterwards Is Very Painful And Intolerable. In The Same Way The Pleasures Of This World Are Very Attractive In The Beginning, But Their Consequences Are Terrible To Contemplate And Hard To Endure.

Great Men Have The Nature Of A Child.

When An Unbaked Pot Is Broken, The Potter Can Use The Mud To Make A New One; But When A Baked One Is Broken, He Cannot Do The Same Any Longer. So When A Person Dies In A State Of Ignorance, He Is Born Again; But When He Becomes Well Baked In The Fire Of True Knowledge And Dies A Perfect Man, He Is Not Born Again.

Only Two Kinds Of People Can Attain Self-knowledge: Those Who Are Not Encumbered At All With Learning, That Is To Say, Whose Minds Are Not Over-crowded With Thoughts Borrowed From Others; And Those Who, After Studying All The Scriptures And Sciences, Have Come To Realise That They Know Nothing.