“Happiness consists of being able to understand yourself; and the reality around you. If you try to do so, you’re on the way to being liberated from suffering and misery.This is perhaps the definition of happiness I mostly resonate with…”

“To call yourself a ‘realistic’ person is intensely arrogant and conceited. If you do so, you implicitly claim that you are capable of understanding reality. And, is there a more arrogant person than the one who claims such an impermissible thing?”