Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

I am happy with what comes, I don't have expectations of any stature.

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go. Totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, nothing.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

The more quickly we loosen our grip on the things of the world the more firmly we can take hold of the things of eternity.

When we recognize that nothing has to go right for us to be happy, that people do not have to behave for us to love them, our walk home can be surprisingly simple. We have enormous power not to manipulate the world, but to be happy and to know peace.

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious and uptight about wanting things to go in the direction we think will bring happiness. We are always taking hold of the wrong end of the stick. The point is that the happiness we seek is already here and it will be found through relaxation and letting go rather than through struggle.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.