Everyone tells you what's good for you. They don't want you to find your own answers… They want you to believe theirs.

Why is it that we let others influence our lives? Why do we let unimportant or inevitable changes around us affect our how we feel?

I feel that's where a lot of people's problems in their life arise from. Whether we choose to admit it or not, we are so vulnerable to not being accepted in life that conforming to others is such a common but dangerous habit.

When you're down in life, people try to bring you up, and usually we don't listen. That's life. When you're up, people want to bring you down, and again, we don't really listen. That's life too. But when you're torn down the middle, between happiness and sadness, just coasting along, why do we seek out others? If we don't listen to others when we perhaps should, why do we seek them when we probably shouldn't?

If you don't get what you want, you suffer. If you get what you don't want, you suffer. Even if you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. That's one of life's harshest crueltys. Too many questions in life are unanswered, and it's the people who think that they have the answers that try to get you on board. Maybe, just maybe, everyone's answers to some of life's toughest problems, are different?

I'm a firm believer that the key to life is happiness. And I wish I had an answer for all the tough questions about life, but the reality is, I don't and probably never will. I don't believe anyone else can make you happy, it's your own decision. Do not misunderstand me, people can make you smile and laugh, but I think being happy is ultimately a choice.

All through life I had been sustained by an illusion - Happiness through victory - And now that illusion has disappeared. We are no more happier, no more fulfilled, for all our achievements. So I looked up, and saw through the clouds that maybe we had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to get through it. All our life we had been busy seeking happiness, but never truly finding it or sustaining it.

Life is too short to be wondering about the future or dwelling on the past. All we can focus on is right now. Being happy in this moment, because before you know it, it could all be over.

Enlightenment is not an attainment - it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and yet nothing changes.