“Happiness depends on what you can give, Not on what you can get.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.”
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