To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.
– Shunryu Suzuki
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence.
Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
And do not change.
Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.
– Rilke
The secret of human freedom is to act well,
without attachment to the results.
– From the Bhagavad Gita
Beauty is not caused, – it is;
Chase it and it ceases,
Chase it not and it abides…
– Emily Dickinson
The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child.
“What do you want him to be when he grows up?” someone asked.
“Outrageously happy,” said the master.
– Anthony de Mello
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
– James Oppenheim
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
