Things and people around you are just props that generate certain emotions in you. Props keep changing but emotions remain the same. All human beings - rich or poor, king or servant -- go through the same emotions.

Emotions are like vegetable and fruit juices. Some can be sipped while the others have to be swallowed with your nostrils shut.

Don't show so much attachment to someone that they start lying to keep your heart.

A beggar is sad because his alms collection is lower than usual. An emperor is sad because his tax collection is lower than usual. You are on a circular ladder. There is always a lower and higher.

If eating regular food has become a pain for you, you can eat restaurant food to get pleasure. Or you can create the bigger pain of hunger by toiling hard in the field for a few hours. Then regular food will taste like restaurant food. This is how the game of duality is designed. Pain and pleasure are relative here. Only the inner bliss is absolute.

When we browse internet, pictures get loaded on our device, not downloaded. When we browse the universe, things get temporarily loaded in our life, not permanently downloaded. Once you embrace this truth, all problems resolve and you reach the state of permanent bliss.