## West

[On the shortness of life](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_shortness_of_life) Sebeca

## East

[The Art of Happiness](http://www.e4thai.com/e4e/images/pdf/The%20Art%20of%20Happiness.pdf) by Dalai Lama

[Trying Not to Try: How to Cultivate the Paradoxical Art of Spontaneity Through the Chinese Concept of Wu-Wei](https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/04/21/trying-not-to-try-slingerland/)
> “Our modern conception of human excellence is too often impoverished, cold, and bloodless. Success does not always come from thinking more rigorously or striving harder.”

## East and West meet

[Trailblazing Physicist David Bohm and Buddhist Monk Matthieu Ricard on How We Shape What We Call Reality](https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/09/22/the-quantum-and-the-lotus-riccard-david-bohm-reality/)