With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness towards the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous and indifference towards the wicked.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
It is important we cultivate love and compassion to all the sentient beings which is the way to to bring peace to all.
