It is quite another thing to see that you are your “fate,” and that there is no one either to master it or to be mastered, to rule or to surrender. - Alan Watts

"الماء العَكر، يصفو وحده، إذا تُرك وشأنه."
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Yet, when it comes to it, this moment can be called “present” only in relation to past and future, or to someone to whom it is present. But when there is neither past nor future, and no one to whom this moment is present, what is it? When Fa-ch’ang was dying, a squirrel screeched on the roof. “It’s just this,” he said, “and nothing else.