The word

[Michael]

That's easy -- you already have it. It's just a matter of accepting it as it is -- not as you might imagine it "should be". You can do whatever you want to do already, right now. The trick is in understanding (and accepting the fact) that you can't make yourself want something else.

Sensei!!

[Dmitri]

I know, right? I amaze myself with my own philosophical awesomeness all the time!


On a serious note though, now that I've read it again (at a later time), it does sound like a damn fortune cookie, don' it... The funny thing is, I wasn't trying to say anything fancy of sorts; just putting in writing what I've actually been feeling/thinking about for the past several years... and I wholeheartedly mean and stand by every little bit of it.

"Nothing new under the sun", indeed.

[Michael]

I liked what you wrote.