Anthony de Mello

These things come and go.

These things depend on the criteria that your society establishes.

These things depend on your conditioning.

These things depend on the mood of the person who happens to be talking to you right now.

Me is generally selfish, foolish, childish, and a great big arse.

So when you say you're an arse, you're telling me something I've known for years.

That guy there, the conditioned self,

You want to be happy uninterruptedly.

Happiness is uncaused.

And the awakened person replies, why not?

Happiness is the natural state of little children to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidities of our societies and our culture.

To acquire happiness, you don't have to do anything because happiness cannot be acquired.

Because you've got to drop something.