He is dear to me who runs not after the pleasant or away from the painful, grieves not, lusts not, but lets things come and go as they happen.
-Bhagavad Gita
The object of search is never withheld from the seeker. Thus the sun is paired with heat and the cloud with water. This present world is the Creator's prison. You chose to invite punishment, so suffer punishment! God said, "To whom We bestowed a particular disposition, We also sent the appropriate provision."
-Rumi
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
-W.S. Merwin
Don't be heedless of evil
('It won't come to me').
A water jar fills;
even with water
falling in drops.
With evil--even if
bit
by
bit
habitually--
the fool fills himself full.
-Dhammapada
"I got this today," they say; "Tomorrow I shall get that. This wealth is mine, and that will be mine too. I have destroyed my enemies. I shall destroy others too! Am I not like God? I enjoy what I want. I am successful. I am powerful. I am rich and well-born. Who is equal to me? I will perform sacrifices and give gifts, and rejoice in my own generosity." This is how they go on, deluded by ignorance. Bound by their greed, and entangled in a web of delusion, whirled about by a fragmented mind, they fall into a dark hell.
-Bhagavad Gita
As a tree with strong uninjured roots, though cut down, grows up again, so, when deep craving is not rooted out, suffering arises again and again.
-Dhammapada