（外文电子版资料）7. The Fire From Within.docVIP

The Fire From Within ? ? ? There is no completeness without sadness and longing, for without them there is no sobriety, no kindness. Wisdom without kindness and knowledge without sobriety are useless.? ? ? ? ? ? Seeing is a peculiar feeling of knowing, of knowing something without a shadow of doubt.? ? ? ? ? ? Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it--what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.? ? ? Every effort should be made to eradicate self-importance from the lives of warriors. Without self-importance we are invulnerable.? ? ? * * *? ? ? Self-importance cant be fought with niceties.? ? ? * * *? ? ? Seers are divided into two categories. Those who are willing to exercise self-restraint and can channel their activities toward pragmatic goals, which would benefit other seers and man in general, and those who dont care about self-restraint or about any pragmatic goals. The latter have failed to resolve the problem of self-importance.? ? ? Self-importance is not something simple and naive. On the one hand, it is the core of everything that is good in us, and on the other hand, the core of everything that is rotten. To get rid of the self-importance that is rotten requires a masterpiece of strategy.? ? ? In order to follow the path of knowledge one has to be very imaginative. In the path of knowledge nothing is as clear as wed like it to be. Warriors fight self-importance as a matter of strategy, not principle.? ? ? Impeccability is nothing else but the proper use of energy. My statements have no inkling of morality. Ive saved energy and that makes me impeccable. To understand this, you have to save enough energy yourself.? ? ? Warriors take strategic inventories. They list everything they do. Then they decide which of those things can be changed in order to allow themselves a respite, in terms of expending their energy.?