you know what seperates humanity from the other beasts of this world? It's not the ability to make tools or complex language or anything else you tell yourselves. Humans are unique in all this world because they're the only creatures that can make themselves miserable. You do it by expecting to be happy. You're so busy thinking about happiness, obsessing about finding it and why it isn't where you expect it to be, that you miss the point.

"...what you fail to understand is that everything you consider to be you, except for that rather silly imaginary part you call consciousness, is merely bits and pieces borrowed from the universe, and to the universe it will all return. You had no beginning, and you will have no ending. Everything that is you has always been and will always be."

"...life wasn't even that bad. Just not very good, which in some ways was even worse. When you were at the bottom, you could work your way up. When you were at the top, you could gaze forward to the future with optimism. But the middle was tough. The middle was where it was to easy to be lazy and cynical at the same time."

I didn't like Mod Sun's music but it started to grow on me from his lyrics & positive attitude. Lately his music is what I listen to most & it helps my mood stay positive. I purchased his books & read the entire thing as soon as it landed on my porch steps. It was a nice short look at Mod Sun & why he's so positive. I'm realistic on the optimist pessimist scale & will stay that way but he still helps bring out the optimistic points of life.

You could let a flower's beauty warm you, as if that beauty ratified a hidden world of purpose and goodness; or you could let a flower's beauty both warm you and steel you to the fact that you are the moral beauty in your life. You can travel by metaphor in any direction you choose. Be firm and go existential.