Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

My life lesson is just to be patient and everything will fall in place. Most of what's happened in my life is not to do with me but good people and the way things happened. So I feel it's no use stressing over anything. Let things simply happen.

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.

You have to make peace with life.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Find patience in the breath of life.

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.