Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.