Phenomenon are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart.
If you speak or act with a calm, bright heart, then happiness follows you, like a shadow that never leaves
Dhammapada Twin Verses, 2
A clean bright heart
Tag: Life
At peace
Peace can only exist in the present moment. It is ridiculous to say “Wait until I finish this, then I’ll be free to live in peace”. What is “this”? A diploma, a job, a house, the payment of debt? If you think that way peace will never come. There is always another “this” that will follow the present one. If you are not living in peace at this moment, you’ll never be able to. If you truly want to be at peace, you must be at peace right now. Otherwise there is only hope for peace “some day.”
Thich Nhat Hahn, The Sun my Heart
A burning patience
Lastly, I wish to say to the people of good will, to the workers, to the poets: The whole future has been expressed in this line by Rimbaud: “Only with a burning patience can we conquer the splendid City which will give light, justice and dignity to all mankind“
Pablo Neruda, 1904 – 1973, Chilean poet
Tolerance
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness.
Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
The Dalai Lama
Not more, but less
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.
Completion comes, not from adding another piece to ourselves,
but from surrendering our ideas of perfection
Mark Epstein, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective
Good and bad habits
It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route and make a beaten path for ourselves.
I had not lived there a week, before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct.
The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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