We are What We Think

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." - The Buddha

Who I Was

"I wished I had some way of showing them who I was, or who I was convinced I was. I was the surge, the being, the radical absence of non-being, the river in flood, the dispenser of existence, the power to be beseeched." - The Life of Hunger, Amélie Nothomb (Belgian author)

Being

I was talking to a friend today and we were discussing something not so pleasant. The conversation ended with me asking him don't be as low as the people who used sarcasm to show their superiority. I asked him to be better. And he answered me that he'll try.

That made me responded with,

"Don't try. Just be. There's no trying in being."

As Shakespeare famously put it: To be or not to be. No wonder he never really said: Try to be or try not to be. What a genius he was and still is.