Gelong Thubten

“When you run after your thoughts, you’re like a dog running after a stick. But if you throw a stick for a lion, he turns around and looks at who threw it. You only throw a stick at a lion one time. Be like the lion.”
― Gelong Thubten, A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st century

“A myth we have believed throughout our lives is that we have to ‘get’ happiness, and if we can just get the external details of our lives right, we will be happy. This is not happiness, it is a form of enslavement.”
― Gelong Thubten, A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st century