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.
Happiness comes from the soul’s satisfaction not from satisfaction of vitals or body.
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.
To cultivate a garden is…to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes.
Rain clouds come floating in, not to muddy my days ahead, but to make me calm, happy and hopeful.
