Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.
Interpretation
Life's difficulties are universal and inescapable, and we should not allow them to disrupt our peace.
This quote emphasizes the inevitability of challenges in life, suggesting that both ordinary people and enlightened beings, such as saints or sages, face difficulties. It encourages a resilient mindset, advocating for maintaining one's peace and focus in the face of adversity, rather than being overwhelmed by the hardships that arise.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.
If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way
Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.
Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.
Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we ask ourselves, 'Are these words true?' If so, we let them pass on; if not, back they go. At the second gate, we ask, 'Are the necessary?' At the last gate, we ask, 'Are they kind?'
Emotional makeup is more important than technical skill
It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.
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