Your ideas about yourself change from day to day and from moment to moment. Your self image is the most changeful thing you have. To know what you are, you must first investigate what you are not. That which obeys the laws of causation cannot be free. It is indeed the mind that is the cause of men's bondage and liberation.
Ants come of themselves to the spot where sweets are placed.
No one need invite the bee or ant. The bee in search of honey sits only on flowers and never on filthy objects. It is to the Asiatic's knack of doing nothing at all from time to time that humanity is indebted for its greatest spiritual treasures. The window of the soul cannot be forced open. The aspirant, trying his best year after year, has to wait patiently for grace.