The four conditions for happiness are simple: clear eyes, a quiet mind, a sense of beauty, and an open heart. Unhappiness is the dark effect of refusing to cultivate these essential elements for having imagined, by a false light, a contentment that does not exist.

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The real limitation in life is a creation of the illusion that outside of us exists something that — if we could only gain it — would have the effect of making of us more than we already possess the potential to be.