Go home to your hermitage; it is always there inside you. Close the doors, light the fire, and make it cozy again. That’s what is meant by ‘taking refuge in the island of self.’ If you don’t go home to yourself, you continue to lose yourself in the storms of outside circumstances. You can destroy yourself and the people around you, even if you have good intentions and want to do something to help. That’s why the practice of going home to the island of the self is so important. No one can take your true home away.
