Sunday Quote: Be your own island

In some fundamental way, happiness is found within, not in external circumstances, and we cannot give responsibility for it over to another person

So Ānanda, be your own island,

your own refuge,

with no other refuge

The Buddha’s Last Teaching, recorded in the Mahā-parinibbāna Sutta (sutra)

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