To Be Something Other Than What You Are

To be an individual is not an easy thing, you see. That means you are very ordinary. It is very difficult to be ordinary, you know. You want to be something other than what you are. To be yourself is very easy, you don’t have to do a thing. No effort is necessary. You don’t have to exercise will, you don’t have to do anything to be yourself. But to be something other than what you are, you have to do a lot of things.

—U.G. Krishnamurti