• Everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions, and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself.
• Right thought is thinking kindly and refuses to engage in cruel, mean, covetous, or other nasty thoughts. What you think is what you are.
• Give up the old ways - passion enmity, folly.
• Certain behaviors can either lead to nourishment or suffering.
• We cannot avoid the suffering of birth, sickness, old age, and death - but we can reduce the fear they instill in us.
• Self-denial is another form of egotism.
• Feng shui says red, blue, or purple candles stimulate fame, fortune, reputation, happiness, festivity.
• Wise speech is a careful blend of cultivation and restraint. You cultivate speech that is truthful, helpful, kind, and leads to harmony or healing. You restrain from words of harshness, divisiveness, and dishonesty.
• Overlook the faults of others.
• We do not recognize the empty nature of words and we fixate on them as if they were real. Our happy and unhappy reactions to them are a sign that we believe in the reality of words.
• Only a fool becomes voluntarily unhappy.
• Inspire others to be happy and you will inspire yourself.
• Do you have the patience to wait until the mind settles and the water is clear? Can you be quiet for a moment, until the right words arise by themselves - honest words that don't hurt others?
• Before you go to sleep, make a list of 10 things that made you feel happy during the day that just passed. Not big things; the little things.