Begin therefore with yourself and forget yourself.
Truly, if you do
not begin by getting away from yourself, then wherever you flee to, you
will find obstacles and trouble no matter where it is.
If people seek
peace in outward things, whether in places or in methods or in people
or in deeds or in banishment or in poverty or in humiliation, however
great or of whatever kind all this may be, this is all in vain and
brings them no peace.
Those who seek thus seek wrongly; the further
they go the less they find what they are seeking.
They are like a man
who has taken a wrong turning: the further he goes, the more he goes
astray. But what should he do? He should resign himself to begin with,
and then he has abandoned all things.
In truth, if a man gave up a
kingdom or the whole world and did not give up self, he would have
given up nothing. But if a man gives up himself, then whatever he
keeps, wealth, honour or whatever it may be, still he has given up
everything.
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