Follow your Individuality

Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. As long as you’re too busy trying to become something that you’re not, you can’t see your own immortality.  Allow yourself to be you. Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.
Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you. Don’t try to be someone. Be yourself.

Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.  In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

All quotes are reprinted or included here with permission from The Frederick P. Lenz Foundation for American Buddhism