If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
Anthony de MelloPeople who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
Anthony de MelloIf what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.โ โI know. An overwhelming passion for it.โ โNo. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
Anthony de Mello