The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

Your car breaks down in the middle of the night. It's raining. It's cold. And you have to change the tire of your car. You cannot really enjoy that it is cold and wet, but you can bring acceptance to it. Peace flows into it.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

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

Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.

Look around the room a few times a day as if you had just been born into that room.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.