Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return.
As rivers flow into the ocean but cannot make the vast ocean overflow, so flow the streams of the sense - world into the sea of peace that is the sage.
Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore, one should learn contentment.
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
