Thought of the day

Make the outside world ,including its people and things, a part of your happiness, not the source. Your happiness should be like a snow-fed river, like say the Ganga. The Ganga flows through so much pollution, it gets bogged down with the waste of civilization in every city. Yet all that waste doesn't matter to its source, which is far removed from everything else and flows on like nothing has happened. The source of your happiness should be like the untainted glacier from which the river flows and where people can never reach, that way, even when others are a part of your happiness ...they can only magnify or lessen it with their presence...like the city waste determines the speed of the river. No one can wholly take away your happiness if they can never get hold of the source.
On the other hand, if your happiness depends on other people, then it's a rain fed river. And rain-fed rivers are seasonal.