There are no satisfaction in the world. Each choice we make brings everything to us or nothing. If we learn the tests by which we can distinguish everything from nothing, we will make the better choice. If we choose a thing that will not last forever, what we choose is valueless. A temporary value is without all value. Time can never take away a value that is real. What fades and dies was never there, and makes no offering to the person who chooses it.
If we choose to take a thing away from someone else, we will have nothing left. When we deny a person's right to everything, we have denied our own. Because what the ego wants it fails to recognize. If we feel any guilt about our choice, we have allowed the ego's goals to come between the real alternatives.
All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain. I will not value what is valueless. Only what has value do I seek. Only that do I desire. I will not value what is valueless, for what is valuable belongs to me. From "Underneath the Mango Tree." by BID
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