Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise.

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

"Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.