When your mind is liberated your heart floods with compassion: compassion for yourself, for having undergone countless sufferings because you were not yet able to relieve yourself of false views, hatred, ignorance, and anger; and compassion for others because they do not yet see and so are still imprisoned by false views, hatred, and ignorance and continue to create suffering for themselves and for others. Now you look at yourself and at others with the eyes of compassion, like a saint who hears the cry of every creature in the universe and whose voice is the voice of every person who has seen reality in perfect wholeness.
Everyone in this world can be happy. No matter how awful the experience you had as a child, it is all in the past. If you stop replaying in your head the video of the past, you can be happy at any moment. The moment that you are alive, breathing in and out, is the present. If you concentrate on the present, you will be free from suffering.
If you can concentrate on the present, all the things you experienced in the past become valuable assets. Whether you failed in your business, or got hurt by someone, if you take all those things as precious experiences that help you understand your life, they will enable you to deal wisely with whatever comes your way in the future.
You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. No amount of money or success will solve these basic problems of existence; only intimacy with the Self will bring about true healing!
