Excitement And Depression, Fortune And Misfortune, Pleasure

A Calm Mind Releases The Most Precious Capacity A Human Being Can Have: The Capacity To Turn Anger Into Compassion, Fear Into Fearlessness, And Hatred Into Love.

There Is A Close Relationship Between A House Full Of Possessions And A Heart Full Of Desires, Between A Cluttered Closet And A Crowded Schedule, Between Having No Place To Put Possessions And Having No Priorities For Our Life. These Are Precious Clues. They Remind Us To Slow Down, To Live In The Present, To Reduce The Desires That Drain Our Vitality, To Clarify Priorities So We Can Give Our Time And Attention To What Matters Most. Tragically, In The Press Of Modern Life, We Have Managed To Get Backwards One Of Life's Most Vital Truths: People Are To Be Loved; Things Are To Be Used.

International War Is The Sum Total Of Millions Of Individual Wars, Raging In The Minds Of The People, Between What Is Selfish And What Is Selfless. To The Extent That You And I Develop Selflessness In Our Own Hearts, To That Extent We Contribute To Peace In Our Family, Community, Country, And World.

To Enjoy Anything, We Cannot Be Attached To It... What We Usually Try To Do Is Capture Any Joy That Comes Our Way Before It Can Escape... We Try To Cling To Pleasure, But All We Succeed In Doing Is Making Ourselves Frustrated Because, Whatever It Promises, Pleasure Simply Cannot Last. But If I Am Willing To Kiss The Joy As It Flies, I Say, "yes, This Moment Is Beautiful. I Won't Grab It. I'll Let It Go."

We Become In Part What Our Senses Take In.