Ashtavakra Gita 17.7 -

Flexibility is the most effective virtue to live in the world happily and successfully. To be free from anxiety, concern and bondage is the goal and content of liberation. We are all in the world. The world is endless, stupefying, confounding. We are just part of it.

There is no ground or purpose in being intolerant about the world, its courses and trends. We are somehow in it. And we shall be till our body falls. Neither was birth in our hands, nor will death be. Will not life between the two unknowns be also unknowable? Allow it to be in its own manner. Do not interfere with it. Like a river, go on flowing. Accept whatever comes. Reject whatever goes. What is the point in resenting whatever has already come? And what shall we do but leave from the mind what has already gone? By doing so, we have no burden at all. Any other thought or treatment will be troublesome, undesirable.

A python also lives, as much as other beings around. Unable to move fast and catch its prey, it lies keeping the mouth wide open. Whatever flies enter the mouth, it swallows. Has the species become extinct on the earth? Every being has its subsistence, in the hands of nature. We shall have ours too.

Anyone, ready to strive in whatever manner necessary, without imposing his options, will not suffer in the world. Our existence is the world’s making and need, not our desire. Leave it to its plight, and live comfortably.