You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play.

It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.

The universe is not particularly concerned with you.

Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people.

Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and say "What if I took the world at face value?" and then ask "What can I do with what is given?" it's an interesting trick to turn around the whole problem of how you feel.

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.