Thursday, August 20, 2009
Things come and go
Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others."
Dalai Lama
True happiness cannot be sought outside of yourself - not in your relationships with others, the groups you belong to, or in the things around you. Unless you can stand alone in your own shadow and feel happiness from within, true happiness may always elude you for external things come and go like the tide. The only 'constant' in your life is you. Things come and go as they may never have existed at all,,,,maybe they haven't.