“Anything you have to do in this world to bring you happiness does not last, for the world is a world of constant change. When you look to the world for your happiness, for your peace, for your harmony, you’re making a mistake. Look at this world. Is anything ever the same? Things appear, they stay for a while, and they go.

Consequently, if you identify with the things of this world, you’ll be totally confused and confounded. … You own something, you lose it, it burns, disappears out of your life. You live with a person, they change, they leave. This is the way of this world.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)