That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with Spring.
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.
Rituals that are performed with the desire of attaining salvation also help a man to achieve growth and progress in this world.
