Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.
Discrimination means keeping the negative and unhappy thoughts away and allowing the pretty thoughts to come inside you.
You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, “a legend in your own mind.”
Don’t just sit there. Go do something and don’t expect that it’s going to be fun unless you make it fun. You have got to work on things. That is when you are happy.
Happiness is something that you don’t postpone. If you are postponing happiness – it is something you will probably never experience much of.
The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.
The nuns taught me that the best thing you can do in life when things get difficult is to work.
To occupy yourself with tasks that are useful to yourself and others, you can get your mind off your problems.
Take a yoga class, study different forms of self-discovery. Some people are crazy and fanatical, avoid them. People who are balanced and calm and introspective, associating with them will raise your energy level.
Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.
Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.
Happiness is everything in the whole universe. It’s a state of mind. Your whole life is a state of mind. So be happy, why not?
You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.
Forget that you are anybody and just perform the activities around you. Look at them. Watch what you are doing, my God! Life is right in front of you, and it’s great.
Focus on beauty all day long. Realize how incredibly beautiful your life is. How incredibly beautiful it is to feel, to look around, to be, to experience all this wonder.
You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That’s a jerk.
Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you’re unhappy, you’re miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn’t matter. Smile anyway.
When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.
Smile sometimes when things aren’t going well, and maybe realize when they aren’t going well, they are.
Pain and frustration vanish in the sunlight of your smile.