Sure, you make money writing on the coast. . . but that money is like so much compressed snow. It goes so fast it melts in your hand.
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give up acts of futility. It is to let the world remain a mystery that cannot be captured by science, language, or any invention of the mind