"Socrates: Everyone wants to tell you what to do and what's good for you. They don't want you to find your own answers, they want you to believe theirs.
Disciple:   Let me guess...... you want me to believe yours.
Socrates: No, I want you to stop gathering information from the outside and start gathering it from the inside."

I made pilgrimages, looking for God.
Then I gave up, turned around,
there God was inside me!

Oh Lalla, why do you keep on
wandering, and begging?

Make just a little effort..... Act!
And God will appear in the form
of a love that fills your heart..................(LALLA)

EGO....

The stronger the ego in you, the more likely it is that in your perception,

other people are the main source of problems in your life. 

It is also more than likely

that you will make life difficult for others.” 

Eckhart Tolle

"Meditation on Being"

Being is what you are. Nothing you do will make you more or less than that. 
Whether you are... a criminal or a saint, your state of Being is unchanged and eternal. 
Only the awareness changes. 
Nothing you do in the world will change your state of Being.
Whether you are a good spouse, devoutly religious, a high achiever or a dope fiend - there is nothing to be done to make you better or worse at the level of Being.
Your state of Being is untouched by this world.
The voice within the mind that resists what has been said here is the Doer. 
The Doer seeks comfort and invents stories of success, righteousness and salvation in order to manufacture such a feeling. But comfort is always temporary. And so is pain. Two sides of the same coin, made of the same ingredients.
And there appears to be no shortage of things for the Doer to do in this world. But Being existed before and exists after.

Doing goes in circles. Being is eternal.

By Eric Allen Bell

Sculptor

"A Man Asked A Sculptor:

“How Do U Make Such BEAUTIFUL Idols From Stone?”

He Replied:

“Idols & Images Are Already Hidden There…

I Remove Unwanted Stone 0nly..!

:::Moral:::

Your HAPPINESS Is HIDDEN Within You,

Just REMOVE Your WORRIES!"

Here I sit between my brother.... the mountain and my 
sister.... the sea. We three are one in loneliness, 

and the love that binds us together 

is deep and strong and strange.
~Kahlil Gibran