If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.

Imagine the choices you'd make if you had no fear-of falling, of losing, of being alone, of disapproval.

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.