The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing; it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep. - Alan Watts

I have always done things in my own way, which is at once the way that comes naturally to me, that is honest, sincere, genuine, and unforced; but also perverse, although you must remember that this word means per (through) verse (poetry), out-of-the-way and wayward, which is surely towards the way, and that to be queer—to "follow your own weird"—is wholeheartedly to accept your karma, or fate, or destiny, and thus to be odd in the service of God, "whose service," as the Anglican Book of Common Prayer declares, "is perfect freedom."

For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.4

You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.