Presence

We value creative people and funny people so highly in society because creativity and being funny are two things that cannot be faked. You can fake smart, you can fake rich, you can fake confident, you can fake nice, but you can’t fake creativity and you can't fake funny

As long as I desire to be successful either in this world or spiritually, I must make effort, I must exert myself to achieve – and suffering is inherent in the very nature of that effort.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves