The student asked: Master, I am happy when I am alone, what would you say about this? The master replied: If you are happy according to the circumstances, I would say you are still far from wisdom!

Everybody is looking for happiness, as if happiness is hidden somewhere! But you must realise that happiness is everywhere, not hidden in a secret corner of life! You are a bee and everywhere is full of flowers; do not try to find a particular flower; concentrate on every flower; try to extract happiness from ever simple thing!

When everything is going well in your life, there appears a strange feeling inside you: This can't be true! Why? Because life does not carry happiness for a long time! Certainly a wind blows soon and the rough waves begin in the peaceful stagnant sea!

Not the world but the world you have created within the world determines the degree of your happiness or unhappiness!