Rest is not only fuel for more work.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. One is the sorrow of someone's absence. The other is the start of your own presence.

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And I say: solitude is not difficult. Descending into yourself for the first time is difficult. Because there you will see everything you have suppressed for years. Your anger, your fear, your envy, your ambition, your insecurity, your craving, your love, your unfinished desires — all of it will come before you.

That is why a person keeps running outward. He does not want to hear the voice within. But remember: what you run from pursues you. You can change the city, change the house, change the job, change the relationship, change your clothes. But the unconsciousness within you, you will carry along. Therefore life does not change merely by changing circumstances. Life changes when the seer changes. When light comes into consciousness.

Every day, sit for some time without any screen. Without music, without video, without any outer noise. In the beginning the mind will be restless. It will say, do something. Do not. Only sit. Watch the breath. Feel the body. Let thoughts keep coming. Do not follow them. One thought came: I have to do this work tomorrow. See it. Another came: why did that person do this to me? See it. A third came: if only I had this much money. See it. A fourth came: when will I succeed? See it. You do not have to solve anything. You only have to see.

And slowly you will find that thoughts too have their own movement. They come, remain a little while, and go. But you set out on a search with them. That is why they feel real. If you sit on the bank and watch, thoughts are like clouds. One came, another came, a third came, and the sky remained where it was. Your consciousness is that sky.

This understanding slowly descends within. And then you recognize the greatest mistake of your life. You had taken the clouds to be the sky. You had taken your thoughts to be yourself. You had taken your fear to be yourself. You had taken your role to be yourself. You had taken your story to be your existence. But now, when you see, a difference begins to appear between the story and the one who sees. And in this difference there is a wonderful peace.

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