Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.