Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside. If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

Consciousness is not personal. Human consciousness is just an expression of universal consciousness, which pervades the entire universe.

To some people, surrender may have negative connotations, implying defeat, giving up, failing to rise to the challenges of life, becoming lethargic, and so on. True surrender, however, is something entirely different. It does not mean to passively put up with whatever situation you find yourself in and to do nothing about it. Nor does it mean to cease making plans or initiating positive action. Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.