A general noticed one of his soldiers behaving oddly. The soldier would pick up any piece of paper he found, frown and say, ‘That’s not it,’ and put it down again.
This went on for some time, until the general arranged to have the soldier psychologically tested. The psychologist concluded that the soldier was deranged, and wrote out his discharge from the army.
The soldier picked it up, smiled and said, ‘That’s it.’


'What is important in your life? If you are reading this, freedom must be important to you. So why postpone what you can do right now? Actually there is nothing to do. You just have to be very clear about what is really you and what is not you.

Find out what doesn’t change. Find out what is constant, what has always been here. It doesn’t matter what we are doing on the outside. It doesn’t matter what the thoughts are. It doesn’t matter what we feel, or what the structures are. What is here all the time is awareness being aware of what we are feeling, what we are thinking, what we are doing. This awareness is constant.'