Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the present moment, even in the midst of challenges. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

The habit patterns of the human mind are very strong and make it seem that the hard way is easy and the easy way is hard.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

Instead of asking, “what do I want from life?,” a more powerful question is, “what does life want from me?

When you look upon another human being and feel great love toward them, or when you contemplate beauty in nature and something within you responds deeply to it, close your eyes for a moment and feel the essence of that love or that beauty within you, inseparable from who you are, your true nature. The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.