Use the day as a mirror.

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Your relationships show you your face. The person who angers you most is showing you something within you. The thing that wounds you most is showing some hidden insistence within you. The thing you fear losing is showing your attachment. The praise for which you remain restless is showing the hunger of your ego.

So do not run from life. Use life as a mirror. When someone insults you, in that very moment look within: what shook? When someone praises you, see who forgot himself. When someone leaves you and goes, see who broke. This seeing itself is the practice.

And slowly you will experience that you are not the story of your mind. You are the spectator of that story. Then a wonderful distance appears in life. Thoughts come, but they do not sweep you away. Emotions rise, but they do not make you their slave. Circumstances change, but a quiet center remains within you. That center is your own home. All your life you have wandered outside the house, and the house is within.

You have sought happiness in objects, in honor, in relationships, in success. But the root of happiness is not outside; it is within. An outer object can give you momentary pleasure. Lasting peace comes only when you begin to taste your own being.

Therefore I say: without knowing yourself, all is in vain. Your achievements are not vain, because they can be useful in the world. But they cannot complete you. You may have a great deal and still be empty of yourself. And you may have very little, and yet within there may be a richness that no one can take away. Real wealth is that which comes from within you.

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