Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does

Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

No need to feel brave or confident; just behave that way.

Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they never turned. And the source of it all [is] the human mind.

A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.