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We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. the more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. they saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. a man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... millions will always remain poor.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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We Notice That The Mind Is A

Mahatma Gandhi

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. the more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. they saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. a man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... millions will always remain poor.

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You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. you will remember, those of you who were there, how it jerked its wings before dying, and left a spot of blood on the floor after it was removed. but who among you was first to notice the negative bird it left in the window? who first saw the shadow that the bird left behind, the shadow that drew blood from any finger that dared to trace it, the shadow that was better proof of the bird's existence than the bird ever was?

There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. we can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. on the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.

Oh god, are there so many of them in our land! students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. he is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. the contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. that is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. when literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at princeton .... however, i have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

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