The unchanging existence neither desires nor hates the changing life, but embraces it like a nest embraces the baby birds perched within, without feeling and yet with infinite love.
Likewise, he who has put his root from life into being; he does not rejoice in the evolving, nor lament the lost; he wishes to help no one; he loves all things alike, without feeling and infinitely.
He praises without admiration and reproves without disgust, for all things in life are ultimately neither good nor bad; nothing is better than anything, only the journey has different stages.
As soon as you no longer have a need for pleasure: you learn the way of uninterrupted pleasure and you don't use it.
As soon as you live no matter how long: you will know the way of eternal life on earth and you will not live it.
As soon as you realize that mankind does not need to be made happy, peaceful, wise: you will know the way of it and you will not make use of it.
All that seems most desirable: is the most powerful poison. It would make the world go to hell.
"As soon as you don't need it: everything is yours" - that's the sign of the marketplace of life.