As long as I live my life being true to myself, loving myself, rationally deciding according to what's best for me, this true self, how I fit best in the world, we will lead a happy and fulfilled life.
“In general, although humans possess nature, their mind is without a fixed purpose. They await things, and only then do they become active; they await pleasure, and only then do they move; they await practice, and only then do they become fixed.
The energies of joy, anger, sorrow, and sadness are given by nature. When they are manifested on the outside, it is because people have called them forth.
The Way begins with the dispositions, and the dispositions are born from nature. Only through training do we become able to respond well.… At the beginning [of one’s life] one responds with emotions; at the end, one responds with propriety.
As for everyone within the four seas (i.e. the world), their nature is one. That they are different in the way they use their minds is brought about by education."
-Michael Puett-