When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light in your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault is in yourself.
Chief Tecumseh, Leader of the Shawnee, 1768 -1813
It is very simple to be happy,
but it is very difficult to be simple.
Rabindranath Tagore
When we convene again
to understand the world,
the first speaker will …
point silently out of the window
at the hillside in its season,
sunlit, under the snow,
and we will nod silently,
and silently stand and go.
Wendell Berry , Those Awake
Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment,
because in its presence we realize
that we need very little to be happy
Mark Coleman
I settled at Cold Mountain a while ago, already it seems like years and years.
Freely drifting, I wander the woods and streams
And sit there, watching things themselves; I am satisfied.
Not many come this far into the mountains,
White clouds sometimes touch and pass, thin grass does for a mattress,
The blue sky makes a good cover, a stone under my head. I am happy
I’ll let heaven and earth go about their changes.
Han Shan, Cold Mountain, poem 12
No matter how difficult a state of mind you may find yourself in,
if you hold firm,
eventually the floating clouds will vanish
and the withering wind must cease
Dogen
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