Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.

If your washing machine stops working and you're addicted to appliances that work, you'll get upset and you will suffer. If you prefer that your appliances work well, then when your washing machine breaks down you won't compound the problem by superimposing your uncomfortable emotions on the situation.

If you want those around you to act in a more loving and conscious manner, act in a way that helps them to do so.

When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire.

Love is not a matter of what happens in life. It's a matter of what's happening in your heart.

I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.