"Even when luck is with you and you're powerful,
still, Prosperity is other than you are:
one day it departs and leaves you poor.
O you who've been chosen, be your own good fortune!
When you have become your own wealth, O man of Reality,
then how will you, who are Prosperity, lose yourself?
How will you lose yourself, O man of good qualities,
when your essence is your wealth and your kingdom?"

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"I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself."

Silence is not the absence of sound.
Silence is the absence of you.
~ Wu Hsin~

"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