Do you know one sign that you’ve woken up? It’s when you are asking yourself, “Am I crazy, or are all of them crazy?” When you’re on the verge of going insane, you’re either psychotic or a mystic. The mystic is the opposite of the lunatic because the whole world is crazy. We’re living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything. People are crazy. They are lunatics, and the sooner you see this, the better for your mental and spiritual health.

Is renunciation the answer? Well, what are you renouncing? Anytime you renounce something, you are tied forever to the thing you renounce. When you fight something, you’re tied to it. As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

You must “receive” your demons, because the only way to get out of this is to see through it. Don’t renounce it, see through it. Understand its true value and you won’t need to renounce it; it will just drop from your hands. But, if you’re hypnotized into thinking that you won’t be happy without this, that, or the other thing, you’re stuck. You don’t need to do sacrifices and renounce things. That’s useless when you’re still asleep. You needed to understand. If you understood, you’d simply drop the desire for it. If you woke up, you’d simply drop it.