Some people have to vacillate between crying and laughing several times in the course of each day — their minds constantly expanding and contracting. They go up and down, back and forth, according to the expansion and contraction of their purses and wallets or their ability or inability to get what they want.

– Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu –

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From “FOOD FOR THOUGHT,” translated from the Thai by Grant A. Olson.