When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves--from other people, relationships, or material goods--or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.
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I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left
Source: Tom Waits
Contributed by: Tharlam Gyatso.
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Joyful is the accumulation of good work.
Buddha
(563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Dhammapada By Juan Mascaró, v. 118
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