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A man once told The Buddha,
“I want happiness”

The Buddha replied,
“First remove ‘I’, that’s ego.
Then remove ‘want’ that’s desire.

And now all you’re left with is
Happiness.”

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" It was one of his river ramblings that he met Malathi and thought that he would not have room for anything else in his mind. No one can explain the attraction between two human beings. It happens."...R. K Narayan

Nothing makes me feel better—calmer, clearer and happier—than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It’s actually something deeper than mere happiness: it’s joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as “that kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.”

Pico Iyer

What is my inheritance? To what am I an heir? To all that humanity has achieved during tens of thousands of years, to all that it has thought and felt and suffered and taken pleasure in, to its cries of triumph and its bitter agony of defeat, to that astonishing adventure of man which began so long ago and yet continues and beckons to us.---Nehru

“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”
— W. Somerset Maugham

What a joy it would be when people realize that religion consists not in outward ceremonial but an ever-growing inward response to the highest impulses that man is capable of..Gandhi

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation, speaking our fears, listening to the fears of others, and in that sharing of vulnerabilities discovering a genesis of hope.

Exploring the poetry of Yeats, his poetry is full of Homer, Dante, Troy.

The aesthetic attitude

need to understand:)