Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway

If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.

When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

Life is what's happening while you're worrying.

The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).

Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible. It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.