As long as you chase happiness,
you are not ready to be happy,
even if you owned everything.

As long as you lament a loss,
run after prizes in restless races,
you have not yet known peace.

But when you have moved beyond desire,
become a stranger to your goals
and longings and call no longer on happiness by name,

then your heart rises calmly above the ebb
and flow of action and peace has reached your soul.

(Hermann Hesse)