I found this for me, but I’ll leave it here for you too.
Here are a few of my random favorite passages…
“It is so rare to find somebody who cares for you. Love without hoping for the relationship to last. Look at the glorious sunset while it is there, but you can’t hold on to it.”
“Feelings come and go and desires come and go - let them come and go. Don’t take them so seriously. Just watch them. If you don’t try to control them and don’t wish them to be otherwise you won’t get so upset. Our desire to be in control makes us burn out. We don’t suffer because we have a heart; we suffer because we have desires and take them so seriously.”
“To be in conflict with people is tiring. To desire for the respect, appreciation, and regard of people is a prison.”
“«That our care for others is our care for ourselves, a deep honouring of the being we all share.» That is true when there is no ego, and when we see that all beings are related.”
“«You cannot harm another being without harming yourself.» So when you help another you help yourself; our care for others is caring for ourselves also. To see it and feel it we must first lose our sense of ego.”
“Everybody is bad. After we have accepted that, we can really appreciate it when we see some good in everybody.”
“Do I really love anybody? In most cases we love because we are so lonely. Hoping that we will overcome loneliness if we really love somebody and if that somebody can really love me.”
“The source of the problem lies in not knowing or understanding oneself in depth, not accepting oneself. We are always rejecting some aspect of ourselves. Can we love and respect ourselves unconditionally?”
