Now that you have entered this life, you cannot turn back. There is no "rewind" in time. You can only go forward with confidence. If you are not confident of your steps you are unstable in your plans. Whatever choices you have made, let them be, don't pick at them. You cannot go back. You must endure the consequences of every decision. Make the best of your current circumstance. Improve upon it. Happiness is in the present, not in what was, or what will be. Time marches on, so go with it.
Show mercy to anyone genuinely willing to change themselves. See all others as your children, or at least as your equal, for we are all children of the same God and belong to one another. There is no perfection in life, only progress. If you look for perfection, you will not find it.
Seek only a bit of knowledge and let the unknown go. Otherwise, you wear out your mind. If you are worn down it is your incessant questions that have made your patience thin. No questions equal no problems. Have a little faith that you are known to God. Why fret and hound yourself about matters beyond your control?
Self-doubt is not a characteristic of successful people. I don't mean worldly success; I care nothing for that. Those who keep in the center of grace can go forward with confidence. Be like a tree who bends, quivers and shakes, but does not break. A tree always reaches upward, it doesn't grow back from where it started.
Make the goal of your life to stay in the present moment. Then take life step by step, day by day, lifetime by lifetime, and you will find yourself on the right road. This constant abiding in the moment is key, the secret to unlocking happiness. Who can say what will happen tomorrow?
Surrender your concerns and confusion, always giving up what you cannot carry without breaking, for it is the only way to get where your Soul is leading. All your life this lesson repeats until you completely accept whatever ill circumstance is before you. This is the revelation of life: it rewards those who abandon plans and schemes of the mind.
The ego must be crushed. If the ego remains unbroken, it will rule over even the finest person. There is only one way to crush the ego, and that is by giving up your sense of knowing what you think you know, for you know only what you perceive with limited senses. This is the mantra to freedom: "Whatever comes is alright" (Sri Anandamayi Ma, paraphrased).
All resistance is an act of ego. If you think you have attained, see how many times you resist in a single day. You even resist when it rains, and you prefer the sun. If you object to anything or have to have it your way, you see the will in action. If you object to anything, there is your error. Once the will is given up, there is peace, there is satisfaction, there is attainment. Everything else is wasted effort, fruitless plans and schemes powered by the ego.
The personal will knows no bounds. It always leads astray, so the overcoming exercise is to deaden the thing that always hungers. It hungers to know, to apprehend, and thinks it will make you happy thereby. What folly! Chasing after a kite that flies farther and farther out of your grasp. Chasing happiness is like this. Happiness is right where you are sitting. How much simpler could it be? Happiness is a choice, not a place you go.
Let your motto be, "Whatever comes is alright" (Sri Anandamayi Ma)."
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