Happiness and suffering come from your own mind, not from outside. Your own mind is the cause of happiness; your own mind is the cause of suffering. To obtain happiness and pacify suffering, you have to work within your own mind.
— Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand—relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
— Osho
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
— Roald Dahl
A very long time went by, it seems. At some point I drifted into sleep. By the time I sensed the presence of something and woke, the light was already there… Almost unconsciously, I spread open both my hands and received the sun in my palms… In the light, tears poured out of me. I felt as if all the fluids of my body might turn to tears and come streaming from my eyes, that my body itself might melt away like this. If it could have happened in the bliss of this marvelous light, even death would have been no threat. Indeed, I felt I wanted to die. I had a marvelous sense of oneness, an overwhelming sense of unity. Yes, that was it: the true meaning of life resided in that light that lasted for however many seconds it was, and I felt I ought to die right then and there. — Murakami
Who needs faith when joy is right here?
• The earth is my temple
• Love is my prayer
• The present moment is my god
• I can step inside heaven whenever I choose
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