"I"-thought
How did man create this space around himself in the first place?
Surely by thinking that he is independent of and separate from the rest of the universe.
This thought itself is space.
This thought (which is the "I"-thought) generates other thoughts in order to assume and to establish a relationship between the individual and the rest of the universe.
These thoughts pollute that inner space.
S-o-r-r-o-w
A holy Man came to a very simple and beautiful understanding - sorrow is 's-o-r-r-o-w', nothing more than the word.
If the word were not there, and if the mind that gave value to that word were not there, where would sorrow be?
This Holy Man discovered that "as you think, so you become".
It means this: I am thinking of sorrow and at that moment I experience sorrow.
A Meditation
Never mind, you have slept for years.
What does it matter if you don't make it this morning?
Tomorrow morning you'll start again.
That is a very beautiful form of meditation.
Watchful
But can I live in relation with others all the time, and yet be inwardly watchful always?
Guru
We cannot do without the Guru on the spiritual path.
We cannot do even without the material objects like food, clothes, and shelter.
These are like the crutches with which the lame man walks.
We cannot renounce them all of a sudden.
We must develop inner strength, dispassion to a high degree, before we can be content with chance alms, the shade of a tree, or near nudity.