Daily Meditation: Sunday, April 14, 1996

Before trying to improve the conditions of your outer life, …

04/14/1996

Before trying to improve the conditions of your outer life, strive to know and accept the truths that are likely to improve your inner life. Whatever you find outside yourself will never bring you fulfilment, because fulfilment is only found in the efforts you make yourself, in efforts of will, intelligence, and imagination. In fact you have already understood this: whenever you accomplish something yourself, you experience satisfaction, whereas all that you receive without doing anything, even money, fails to bring you this happiness. Yes, you have realized this yourself, you know this, but you continue to expect everything to come from the outside, which is why you are always dogged by the feeling that you lack something. So whatever you possess, whatever you are given, never abandon your inner work. Until the very last moment, do not abandon this inner work.