The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

Peace, or freedom from conflict, is the absolute core of happiness. It is in learning to watch our sense of peace that we avoid unhappiness. All forms of misery are heralded by a frame of mind that must become immediately recognizable if we are ever to gain mastery in happiness...Take the time to look in your heart and be clear. Walk through life being clear. Practice doing each thing in peace.

Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting.

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic.

True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.