What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.

Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.

Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.

The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.

Taoism shows us how to deal with life and death by realizing everything here is transitory but its substance is eternal.