Religious Thought 256

He has no desires. He has cast off his chains. He walks on air. He is free, Tumbling like a leaf in the wind, From life to life. He has gone beyond the world, Beyond joy and sorrow. His mind is always cool. He lives as if he had no body.

- Ashtavakra Gita 18:21-22

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Without love we could not survive. Human beings are social creatures, and a concern for each other is the very basis of our life together.

- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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Religious Thought 255

For pleasures come and go. How often I have watched their inconstancy! But I have forsaken good and bad, And now I am happy.

- Ashtavakra Gita 13:7

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Every time a problem arises, the essential thing is to immediately become aware that the problem comes from our selfish mind, that it is created by self-cherishing thoughts. As long as you put the blame outside yourself, there can be no happiness.

- Lama Zopa Rinpoche, "Transforming Problems Into Happiness"

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Religious Thought 254

Adversity and prosperity never cease to exist. The adornment Of great men's minds is to remain unswervingly just under both.

- Tirukkural 12:115

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Contrary to what some people might believe, there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction.

- Lama Thubten Yeshe, "Introduction to Tantra"

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A tiny house on the Drina River, near Bajina Basta, a small town in Western Serbia. The Drina is a 346 km long river that forms much of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Alps.