To burn your bridges means to be isolated in your own tiny islands.

शमथ। Samatha

People are willing to go to Mars on a one-way ticket with the intention of never to return to earth,
not for any scientific advancement but out of sheer dislike for humanity. It may seem like a flight
to fantasy, but once you touch the ground, reality is similar to elsewhere.

People around you are not hell. They are your mirrors to yourself. If you see hell in them,
remember that they are simply reflecting your state upon them. And you will carry that hell with
you whether you go to Mars or to another galaxy. Instead of being upset with others, look at
what attribute in you is affected by the attitude or behaviour of the other. You do not have to
label that attribute as good or bad.

Labelling makes you believe that an attribute is permanent. This means you give it the power to
define you. Doing so will bring you nothing short of downfall. Understand that your feeling about
the other is simply an outcome of the interaction between attributes which cannot have any
permanent impact. Fire behaves differently with water and kerosene. It is important to know
when to behave as water, and where to behave as kerosene.

The other is not the cause of your troubles. Do not cut them off. Without the other you will have
no way of coming out of the hell. Stop identifying yourself with mere attributes, and take time to
know the real self.

Feel Blessed
Swastham Shantam Sampurnam