One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.