It is only your mental habits and your selected memories of how you think things are that keep you from moulding things in your life in a more harmonious way.

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You stop viewing yourself as being "pushed around" by the world when you realize that only you can "push" yourself. To quote Buddha: "Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable."

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Watch your own body and mind, and the people and things surrounding you, from the deep, calm place inside of you. When you do that you'll have insights as to what you need to do in order to flow with the river of life around you.

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Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.

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I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

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If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.

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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

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The only real problem in your life is how you're using your mind.

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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

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You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

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