To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.

The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass.

Happiness is not something that happens ... It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them.

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn.

Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world