“What we need is often exactly what we already have.”

“When we stop pushing we realize that it was all for habit, fear, envy, or greed.In the calmness after the strife we often see that we already have what we need.”

“I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.”

“We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do.”

“A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.”

“After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what we have read, and what we have imagined?”