It’s the Inward Heart that Matters

Those ornamented with jewels need not be the slaves of their senses. It is not the outward garb that matters; it is the inward heart. A [person] may have the garments of a beggar and dwell in lonely places, and yet his heart may be filled with desires and worldly thoughts. If you look with an equal eye on all, having no preference either for jewels or for rags, then, though you live in the world, you are yet liberated from it.

 

The Buddha

from Footprints of Gautama the Buddha

by Marie Beuzeville Byles