Make Your Life About God: The End of Problems

Don't try to find your soulmate before you find a soul. How will you do the matching up? Don't involve yourself in all of these things inwardly. Outwardly, the play of life will continue whether you like it or not. It will continue; some drama, some events will happen every day. But inwardly, make yourself only about God. That is the end of problems. Or no, it should be—if you're following, then that should be it. And if you're not following, then what to do? What are the things that the mind uses? Relationship, attractive relationships, then attractive self-image. Say like that: you look very cool, do like this, people will look up to you. Attractive self-image. Then what else? Negative self-image, for example. Yeah, so it just says you're so bad, you're never going to get this, you're a big failure, nothing. You see all that? Yes. Then health. You like that focus on the body, and in that mental state of concern about the body, the body is getting worse, you see? Because instead of doing that, if you just like got up and ran or something, it would be easier.

What else? Freedom, meaning, purpose—conceptual. The conceptual search for intellectual answers. Those seem very attractive. 'Ah this, ah that, ah he said like that, she said like that.' But if you apply just one note, two things is more than enough. You don't have to apply the whole spiritual encyclopedia. You keep it just very simple and heartfelt; it's much easier. Except if the desire is 'I want to become a teacher, I want to have followers, I want to become popular.' Maybe then those things get in the way. But to come to God, we need to become simpler and simpler. But these things, these basic three or four things, is what the mind tempts us with.