To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God.

To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness and things like that. You can get serious about seriousness. Then instead of one, you have created two diseases. Then you can get serious about that also, and you can go on and on. There is no end to it; it can go on AD NAUSEAM.

Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.