So through identification you have pleasure and pain.
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.
The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.
Most people like to live in illusions.
As long as the mind is in conflict-blaming, resisting, condemning-there can be no understanding. If I want to understand you, I must not condemn you, obviously.