You can’t trade even a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don’t waste time thinking about who’s most talented.

Kodo Sawaki Roshi (1880 CE-1965 CE), Kodo Sawaki Roshi was a prominent Japanese Soto Zen teacher of the twentieth century, responsible for popularizing the integration of Zen Buddhist practice into the lives of laypeople.