The next time you catch yourself starting to feel bad about anything, immediately stop everything you are doing for a moment and, as simply and as honestly as you can, ask yourself: "Is this what I really want?

Each moment of every one of my relationships serves as the secret path to the summit of myself.

I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.