From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 03:01:00 +0000 (-0500) Subject: new fortune X-Git-Tag: 2.140.103^2~7 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c78d4ee36828e7a50cdbd89fd9d7ee4613c2a561;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune --- diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 1f462d80..32f238a0 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -43025,4 +43025,29 @@ you see he gets so high, mind expanded to sky; real world grokking just not ready. -- fred t. hamster +~ + Generally speaking, when we are too desirous of something in life, we’re +less likely to attain it. Success seems to increase in direct proportion to +the diminution of our desires. The same logic applies to our need for +recognition. We might want to be appreciated and respected, but we have only +a limited ability to influence how other people respond and we can’t make +somebody show us gratitude any more than we can force someone to love us. If +we show love without expecting it to be reciprocated, we will have more chance +of finding love than if we simply yearn for it. Likewise, doing something +without expecting gratitude is more likely to elicit appreciation for what we +do. Whether someone can acknowledge our actions or not should be no concern +of ours. + We simply commit ourselves to doing things to the best of our ability and +in as thorough a manner as possible without sloppiness. We should never think +that other people are indebted to us or obligated to help us in return. We +should simply do things because we love doing them, not because we want other +people to feel indebted to us. Shantideva says: + + The work of bringing benefit to beings + Will not, then, make me proud and self-admiring. + The happiness of others is itself my satisfaction; + I do not expect another recompense. + + -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion + through Training the Mind", published by Shambhala Publications