The three most important things in life are love, kindness and wisdom. If we have made these three values the priorities of our life, then our life will have been well-lived. When we die we can only have happiness when we look back at our lives with no regrets. Wealth, fame, power, status, worldly success and pleasures — these are insignificant compared to love, kindness and wisdom. Cultivate the latter. If we spend our life cultivating this trio, our birth and life will have been worthwhile; it will not have been in vain.
“I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative, with what is wrong... Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?”
~Thich Nhat Hanh~
The only thing that will bring happiness is affection and warm-heartedness. This really brings inner strength and self-confidence, reduces fear, develops trust, and trust brings friendship. We are social animals, and cooperation is necessary for our survival, but cooperation is entirely based on trust. When there is trust, people are brought together—whole nations are brought together.
Dalai Lama
And as the wonderful Eckhart Tolle said -
"Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of
fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence." - Eckhart
Tolle
Why worry, why stress and live with anxiety, when you have the power to live in the stillness of peace.
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