I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.

Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.

The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?" someone asked. "Outrageously happy," said the master.

The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.

Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.