“Put everything into this house and set it on fire. All your tastes, the past, the future, identity, desires, attachments, your sorrows and your joys - put all in this house and set it on fire. You bring the matches. I bring the gasoline. I am serious about it. And finally, you also go into the fire. You understand? There is a path for everybody, and this is perhaps the swiftest path: Leave everything aside or burn the lot. Try it and see. All the great sages, they set fire to this house of ego - this house of suffering.
If self-inquiry is too much work, or you have arthritis and can do no pilgrimage, if you bite your tongue while chanting mantras, or if you have no faith to believe in a God, then set your house on fire. This will be your religion - the desperate or lazy man’s religion. Only one thing: Make sure it’s your own house.” ~ Mooji
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