Like the little girl who says to a little boy, “Are you a Presbyterian?” And he says, “No, we belong to another abomination! - Anthony de Mello

So, we were born happy. We lost it. We were born with the gift of life. We lost it. We’ve got to rediscover it. Why did we lose it? Because we were working actively. They taught us to work actively, to make ourselves miserable. How did they do that? By teaching us to become attached. By teaching us to have desires so intense that we would refuse to be happy unless they were fulfilled.

Do you know one sign that you've woken up? It's when you are asking yourself, "Am I crazy, or are all of them crazy?

A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God, to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God."