To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
  
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
   

Mantra 50

On est jamais perdant quand on aime.

   

Mantra 49

We are a flash in time, but our impact is forever.
  

Mantra 48

Much or most of the misery of human life results from the false view of self.

  

Mantra 47

Greed is not to be taken for a need.
    

If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being a man or woman, or even human, should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such, so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

It does not mean that you must be brainless and foolhardy, improvident or indifferent; only the basic anxiety for oneself must go. You need some food, clothing and shelter for you and yours, but this will not create problems as long as greed is not taken for a need. Live in tune with things as they are and not as they are imagined.

-Nisargadatta Maharaj
  

If you are grateful, you are not fearful. If you are not fearful, you are not violent.

If you are grateful, you act out of a sense of “enough” and not of a sense of “scarcity”, and you’re willing to share.

If you are grateful, you enjoy the differences between people and you are respectful to everybody. And that changes this power pyramid under which we live and it does make for equality but it also makes for equal respect, and that is the important thing. The future of the world will be a network, not a pyramid, not a pyramid turned upside down.
  

Mantra 46

It's better to love, whether you win or lose or die.
   

Mantra 45

I am enough.
   

Mantra 44

Yo soy porque nosotros somos.
  

Just for today, we are here. We are alive. And with that aliveness comes a profound responsibility to do what we can. To make meaning and beauty out of what is.
   

Mantra 43

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

-Thomas Paine
  

Mantra 42

Take a chance,
because you never know how perfect can something turn out to be.
  

Mantra 41

Ease pain, soothe sorrow, lessen suffering.
 

Mantra 40

You accept the love you think you deserve.
 

Mantra 39

You become who you think you are.
 

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

  

No soy de aquí ni soy de allá,
no tengo edad ni porvenir
y ser feliz es mi color de identidad.

-Facundo Cabral
   

Mantra 38

At the end of the day, all we have is who we are.
 

Mantra 37

Si dejas de esperar, lo tendrás todo.