The secret to making your holiday inspiring is actually quite simple. Be inspiring yourself. As with any change, you must be the change you want to see in others.

What you experience as "reality," including your physical body and aging, is shaped by your habits of perception.

Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform.

One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash.

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

When you begin to meditate on a regular basis, you will start to notice that thoughts and feelings that may have been building up inside of you are gently released and you reach the quiet place that was always there, waiting for you- the place of pure awareness. It is there that you will experience peace, healing, and true rejuvenation.

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.