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• “Such goals are breeders. Each time a goal is attained, it merely breeds additional needs. Thus more scurrying, more seeking, ad infinitum. It must be that the true path toward imperishable happiness lies elsewhere.
• It lies not outside but within. It is the mind that determines what is fearful, worthless, desirable, or priceless, and therefore it is the mind, and only the mind, that must be altered.”
• In other words, let your love flow, and do not let it be influenced by the idea of the love you may get in return.
• “Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth or the best possible state of your soul?”
• He says that once lustful infatuation is consummated, the lover experiences boredom or jealousy or both.