No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

Unless we make the change ourselves, nothing is going to change.

No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.