The only thing an excuse gives you is an option out of the life you'd like to live.
Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.
Work on what you support rather than fighting what you oppose.
Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.
When you're connected to God, every moment is perfectly perfect.
If you say to the universe again and again, "How may I serve? How may I serve? How may I serve?" and you live a life of constancy reflecting that principle, the universe will respond back, "How may I serve you?"