Remember, if each day does not find you a better person than you were the day before, you are going backward — in health, in mental peace, and in soul joy. Why? Because you don’t exercise enough control over your actions. You yourself made your habits, and you can change them. If you have been thinking wrongly, make up your mind to be with good company and to study and meditate. A change of company can make a great difference to you. When you enter a spiritual environment, even for a few hours, your mentality changes; you feel a refreshing peace. When you go to a dance or a party, your mind is often restless, nervous, and excited. Later, if you go into a better atmosphere, one of calmness, you feel different again. The greatest influence in your life, stronger even than your willpower, is your environment. Change that, if necessary. Until you are mentally strong, you can never be what you want to be without a good environment to help you. When you are having difficulty in trying to change for the better, spiritual company and good environment are essential.

The ego has always an inferiority complex which it compensates by criticising others. This constant movement of opinions and judgements creates the gross reality of the ego which is locked in the cage of the mind. This mechanism must relax so one can experience the open space of not-knowing, letting reality be as it is without categorising it into any concepts. The state of no opinion represents our original purity, our connection with Existence, our innocence and surrender. No opinion means, in truth, no separation.