What haunts you is not others’ coldness, but your hopes and fantasies.
It’s not life’s hurdles, but your inner resistance.
Learn to accept parting, chaos, loneliness and helplessness.
What you accept fades; what you fight stays.
My dumb friend came to my house. I handed him a Sprite. He knocked it off the table, it spilled. He went pale, flipped my table, grabbed my shirt and shouted, “Is this stuff poisoned?!”