"If you suffer, it is not because things are impermanent. It is because you believe things are permanent."And:
"We all have the tendency to struggle in our bodies and in our minds. We believe that happiness is possible only in the future. The realisation that we have already arrived, that we don't have to travel any further, that we are already here, can give us peace and joy. The conditions for our happiness are already sufficient.
"We only need to allow ourselves to be in the present moment, and we will be able to touch them. What are we looking for to be happy? Everything is already here. We do not need to put an object in front of us to run after, believing that until we get it, we cannot be happy. That object is always in the future, and we can never catch up to it." – Thich Nhat Hanh
To be able to achieve such a state must be an intense release. Ambition, I reckon, is healthy – it drives you on to better things and negates apathy. But, yes, putting happiness on a pedestal that you will never touch, see, taste, smell or hear, seems like a waste of life.
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