Lesson #1: We Are Responsible for Our Own Experience of Life

Such as are your habitual thoughts; such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the color of your thoughts.”

Lesson #2: Everything Changes

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

Lesson #3: Live a Real Life

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

Lesson #4: Be Grateful

“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

Lesson #5: Be Detached

“Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.”

Lesson #6: All Is Well

“Everything is unfolding as it must, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.”

Excerpted from Pick the Brain

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