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.

Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude.

Upgrade your addictions to the status of preferences. Here's the distinction between an addiction and a preference.

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!

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

By fully tuning in to the now moment in your life, you will discover that you always have enough to enjoy every moment of your life. The only reason you have not been happy every instant is that you have been dominating your consciousness with thoughts about something you don't have- or trying to hold on to something that you do have but which is no longer appropriate in the present flow of your life.