Great wealth consists in living on a little with a contented mind;
for of a little there is never a lack.
Lucretius, Roman poet c 99 BC – 55 BC, On the Nature of Things Book 5, 1118-1120
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Tag: balance
A wise path
Do your work, then step back
The only path to serenity
Lao Tzu
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Where we often neglect
And God said, Love your enemy,
and I obeyed Him
and loved myself.
Kahlil Gibran
In the present
The past is not clinging to you; you are clinging to the past.
Once you are not clinging, the past simply evaporates
Osho
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Practicing, not talking
We often prefer talking about something, rather than actually doing it, and the mind continually produces good ways of running away from the present moment:
Speech is born out of longing, true description from the real taste
The one who tastes, knows,
The one who explains, lies
Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī, c 713 – 801 AD, Sufi poet and mystic
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Ideas of perfection
When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves – from other people, relationships, or material goods – or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.
Mark Epstein, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart
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