attachments are like a game of roulette in which someone else spins the wheel and the game is rigged: The more you play, the more you lose. The only way to win is to step away from the table, and only way to step away, to make yourself not ups and downs of life, is to mediate and tame the mind. Although you give up the pleasure of “Winning”, you also give up the larger pains of “Losing”. ...

The god Krishna says_;_ “I love the man who hates not nor exults, who mourns not nor desires … who is the same to friend and foe, whether he be respected or despised, the same in heat and cold, in pleasure and in pain, who has put away attachment and remains unmoved by praise or blame… contented with whatever comes his way” ref: Bhagavad-Gita; Chapter 12: Path of Devotion

Do you believe in love at first sight? How you describe what the call of how to know what is it; and what the mean to you? I didn’t believe of that till I met a girl; a girl that changed everything in my life, a girl that I cannot forget her even in my dream, a girl that always be my inspiration, the way I thought, and cultivated on what I’m thinking till today. ...

Lady Philosophy reminds Boethius of the nature and habits of the goddess Fortune. “If you like her, abide by her conditions and do not complain. But if you hate her treachery, ignore her and her deceitful antics. Really, the misfortunes which are now such a cause of grief ought to be reasons for tranquility. For now she has deserted you, and no man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune. ...

**"**No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend’s Or of thine own were: Any man’s death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. " ...

“True strength is keeping everything together when everyone expects you to fall apart.” Unknown

Plato used a similar metaphor in which the self (or soul) is a chariot, and the calm, rational part of the mind holds the reins. Plato’s charioteer had to control two horses: “The horse that is on the right, or nobler, side is upright in frame and well jointed, with a high neck and a regal nose; . . . he is a lover of honor with modesty and self-control; companion to true glory, he needs no whip, and is guided by verbal commands alone. The other horse is a crooked great jumble of limbs . . . companion to wild boasts and indecency, he is shaggy around the ears—deaf as a post—and just barely yields to horsewhip and goad combined.”

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"True love exists, I believe, but it is not—cannot be—passion that lasts forever. True love, the love that undergirds strong marriages, is simply strong companionate love, with some added passion, between two people who are firmly committed to each other. Companionate love looks weak in the graph above because it can never attain the intensity of passionate love. But if we change the time scale from six months to sixty years, as in the next figure, it is passionate love that seems trivial—a flash in the pan— while companionate love can last a lifetime. ...