Eric Jorgenson

It’s much more important today to be able to become an expert in a brand-new field in nine to twelve months than to have studied the “right” thing a long time ago.

The world just reflects your own feelings back at you. Reality is neutral. Reality has no judgments.

However, if you view yourself as a bacteria or an amoeba—or if you view all of your works as writing on water or building castles in the sand, then you have no expectation for how life should “actually” be. Life is just the way it is. When you accept that, you have no cause to be happy or unhappy. Those things almost don’t apply.
Happiness is what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in your life.