Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion