The Upanishads

I found this reading to be very profound. I enjoyed how simple the ideas were, yet they really hit home. Even in the beginning, he says, "Whatever lives is full of the Lord. Claim nothing; enjoy, do not covet His property." I love this! Every living thing is full of the Lord... You can find some good in everyone, and anyone is able to point you onto the right path if you let them. He also says that everything belongs to the Lord, it is there for us to enjoy. Yet we get greedy and want to claim everything for ourselves. If we find something on the ground "It is mine", if there is a plot of unclaimed land, the first person there to claim it takes it for themselves. Do not covet the Lord's property, it belongs to Him.
"Of a certainty the man who can see all creatures in himself, himself in all creatures, knows no sorrow." If we see that we are all connected (all created by God) then we can relate to everything on that level.
"That which makes the mind think but which cannot be thought by the mind-that alone is God" He made our minds, and he gave them the ability to think. Yet we cannot even comprehend God in his fullest. He goes on with the same analogy using the tongue, eye, and ear. All of these senses we use, yet none of them can be used to see, hear, understand God more clearly.
"If you understand the meaning of 'I neither know nor don't know', you understand God" Meaning that we know of God, we know some of his capabilities, some of his promises, yet we don't know him to the fullest. Therefore we can't say we know him. Neither do we not know him at all. We know that he is there, that he is the creator, the all-knowing. So we cannot say we don't know him or don't know of him. If you know these things, then you know God. "Those who realize that God cannot be known, truly know; those who claim that they know, know nothing. The ignorant think that God can be grasped by the mind; the wise know it beyond knowledge."