When you could be sloppy, you're not. When you could be indulgent, you're not. When you could be sad, you laugh instead. If you fall down, you pick yourself up again and again and again.

Things don't make you unhappy. People don't make you unhappy. You make yourself unhappy. Because you are in the cycle. You're stuck. You're stuck in time.

This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.

Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

You become someone else when you meditate. It isn't just a little technique. If you really pursue it, you change radically - you evolve.

Enlightenment is cumulative. You become a little more enlightened each day as you practice yoga and Buddhism.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.