My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

But when you think you're supposed to do something with it and imagine that you're the doer, that's pure delusion. Just follow your passion. Do what you love. Inquire, and have a happy life while you're doing it.

Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

I like to say it was born out of laughter.