We Do Not Become. We Simply Are.

To Contemplate A Thing Implies Maintaining Oneself Outside It, Resolved To Keep A Distance Between It And Ourselves.

Know The Difference Between A Catastrophe And An Inconvenience. - To Realize That It's Just An Inconvenience, That It Is Not A Catastrophe, But Just An Unpleasantness, Is Part Of Coming Into Your Own, Part Of Waking Up.

As You Think, You Shall Become

Be Like Water Making Its Way Through Cracks. Do Not Be Assertive, But Adjust To The Object, And You Shall Find A Way Round Or Through It. If Nothing Within You Stays Rigid, Outward Things Will Disclose Themselves.

Zen Is Not “attained” By Mirror-wiping Mediation, But By “self-forgetfulness In The Existential 'present' Of Life Here And Now.” We Do Not “come”, We “are.” Don't Strive To Become, But Be.