Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.

Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

Will is developed in meditation. It is refined. It is within you, but you don't know how to get to it.

Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of mind that we forget that it's just another transient state of mind, no matter how much ecstasy or agony is involved.

Change is continuous and the aggregate of the self is constantly shifting.