I think where you're born brings a history with it - a cultural history, a mythical history, an ancestral history, a religious context - and certainly influences your perception of the world and how you interpret everyday reality.

The day must come when trust will be as natural to your nature as distrust now seems to be.

You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love.

When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.