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“if you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”
– taisen deshimaru

“if you speak or act with pure thought, happiness follows you…like a shadow that never leaves.”
– the dhammapada

“fear comes from the selfish idea of cutting one’s self off from the universe.”
– swami vivekananda

“do not travel far to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.”
– doggen

“the closer you stand to the lighthouse, the darker it gets.”
– japanese proverb

“of all strategies, to know when to quit may be the best.”
– chinese proverb

“where beauty is, there is ugliness; where right is, there is wrong; knowledge and ignorance are interdependent; delusion and enlightenment condition each other.”
– ryokan