Disturbances

"The basic sources of happiness are a good heart, compassion, and love. If we have these mental attitudes, even if we are surrounded by hostility, we feel little disturbance. On the other hand, if we lack compassion and our mental state is filled with anger or hatred we will not have peace." Dalai Lama

Perhaps a little simplistic for beings like me who are not as enlightened and spiritually at peace as the Dalai Lama, however I can attest to the fact that our own attitudes certainly impact how disturbed we are by the hostility in our lives. Interestingly, in some ways it summarizes my life over the past few years in two short sentences.