Purity, Tolerance

Your goal must be to purify your life. One way to do this is to focus on helping to purify the entire planet, starting with your own local environment. Take time to clean up everything about your life and the spaces in which you live. Then begin to expand out to clean up your neighborhood, your community, and then begin to think on a more global platform. However, the real essence of purity is to purify your own heart and soul. Having a more pure environment simply makes it easier to purify your soul, and the process of external cleansing is one of the best ways to accomplish internal cleansing. Another way is to be aware of the dark aspects of your own personality that remain active in your life. Every individual in the material world has these elements of their personality that keep them ensnared in the illusion of comfort of the material world. The way to root out these aspects is to first acknowledge that they exist and no longer try to pretend that you are already perfect. Once you bring them out you may find that their threat is not as great as you feel when they are buried under layers of denial. Some of these aspects should simply be accepted and tolerated as part of who you are. Others must be carefully examined and an effort made to eradicate their influence on your life. These aspects always have to do with the ego. A great test for how much hold they have on you is your degree of tolerance. If you have lack tolerance of other people or environmentally caused discomfort then you probably have issues with the ego. When you are able to tolerate anything that is done to you, but will not tolerate mistreatment of any other living beings, then you know that you are on your way to purifying your life.