Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.
Frederick LenzWe live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll notice one curious fact about them, they all suffer, they all die, and sometimes those who are the nicest seem to suffer the most.
Frederick LenzAnything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind.
Frederick LenzPut the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.
Frederick Lenz