It is learning to pluck your own roses,
rather than waiting for others
to bring you flowers.
A very few people are blessed to attain spiritual bliss. Most of us, instead, are attached to people which inevitably leads to heartache. This is because of our own expectations. We have a choice. We can pluck our own roses and create our own happiness. But unfortunately, we let our happiness depend on others. If we want spiritual bliss, we must have no expectations. We must learn to accept with gratitude whatever comes our way and not just crave and seek, because this will make us weak. We must not let somebody else be in the driver's seat of our life. We must take charge! Let us live a life of contentment and fulfilment. We must overcome the desires of the body and the mind, that make us puppets to our own expectations and result in our misery.