Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Transformation

How do you begin to see the need for change? The first step is observation. When you see that you are not so beautiful, then you have a chance to make yourself beautiful. When you see you are hurting and harming others, then you have a chance to develop harmlessness. When you see that you are often not righteous but instead you gossip, slander and are full of malice, then you have a chance to develop righteousness in your thoughts, judgements, and actions. When you discover that you are often sad, depressed, irritable, angry, then you have a chance to develop joy. When you see that you are acting under the slavery of your prejudices, traditions, fanaticism, vanity, ego, superstition, and ignorance, then you have a chance to develop freedom.

-Torkom Saraydarian
Transformation – Methods for the Transformation of Life


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