Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
This is peace, this is excellent, namely the calm of all impulses, the casting out of all “basis”, the extinction of craving, dispassion, stopping-nirvana.
If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.
It is hard to find a man who has desire for what he has not tasted, or who tastes the world and is untouched. Here in the world some crave pleasure, some seek freedom but it is hard to find a man who wants neither. It is hard to find a man who has an open mind, who neither seeks nor shuns wealth or pleasure, duty or liberation, life or death…He does not want the world to end. He does not mind if it lasts. Whatever befalls him, He lives in happiness.
