没有事情的时候，需要照管这颗心，小心谨慎，好像有事一样；有了事情的时候，却要放下这颗心，泰然自得，好像没事一样。没有事情能像有事一样提防，才可以平息意想不到的变故；有了事情能像无事一样镇定，才能消除事件过程中的危机。

Authentic being means accepting responsibility for making personal choices.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

True connection lies not in language but in shared emotional experiences.