Any experience, object or passion cannot make up for, eliminate, or otherwise fill up any holes within us.
When we expect the world to complete our insides, we are asking it for more than it can offer.
The world is limited in what it can give us. Bitter though this awareness may be, it is our road to truly enjoying the world as it is.
When we learn the true value of worldly gains, what the things of the world can and cannot offer, we cease asking them to be what they cannot.
People, places and things cannot make us happy. We have to do that for ourselves. It is our ability to use and enjoy objects, rather than letting objects own us, that gives our lives its pleasant rhythm.
Our happiness emerges once we have learnt to value things correctly.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired. ~ George Santayana
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