You were not born to have bad experiences in your life. You were not born to have negative conditions in your life, so-to-speak. You were born to be happy. Yet you allow the conditionings of the world to affect you. You allow your bodily condition to affect you. What the newspapers tell you, what the TV tells you, you respond to these things.

This is the only reason that you’re not enlightened, so-to-speak. For you have allowed exterior conditions, external conditions to make up your mind how things are. Things are things and that’s it. They’re not good, they’re not bad.

Robert Adams