If you ever feel overwhelmed by changes in your life, switch your focus to the unchanging part of yourself. Hold the ever-changing (waves) within the unchanging (mountain)and you will find a way through.

The alchemist secret to finding gold instead of lead in your life is to see or sense what else is happening around, or within, or as a result of, an event. Every moment holds potential gold.

Nothing is mundane. Everthing we do is amazing. The fact that we exist is astonishing.

Tony Bennett’s song “If I Ruled the World”. Every day would be the first day of spring, everyone would sing for joy in the morning and everyone would smile all day. But we need summer, autumn and winter as well as spring, and no matter how hard we hope, not every day brings joy on the breakfast tray.

Fill your day with the little things. It’s satisfying to have goals listed so we have a general direction to head for, but goals are just a part of the whole.

A simple and painless cure for negative thoughts. Go outside and look at the sky.

Don't worry about how other people see you. You know how far you’ve fallen and how high you’ve climbed.

"Today is Mine." This old song by Jerry Reed says it all. What I do with what happens is my will made visible.

Aldous Huxley: "Learn to do everything lightly . . . Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them."

The Dalai Lama said: Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before. So I climb a tree.

Curiosity and wonder. "If we can free ourselves from our robot-like habits of predictability, repetition and function, we begin to walk differently on the earth." John O'Donohue.

We learn the most when we’re falling. We learn about ourselves. We learn what love is. We’re outside our comfort zone and we’re forced to change.

A message from the sea. I’d forgotten that the sea was so salty. So fresh. So clear. So buoyant. So playful. So joyous a place to be.

Encouragement. Brighten someone's day with encouragement, in the form of praise or appreciation.

Beauty dwells at the heart of life. (John O’Donohue) Everyone is beautiful in their own way. Everything is beautiful in its own way.

We are like the lotus We grow best in mud - the mud of our human experiences.

"The Hanged Man" of Tarot. Learning curves, career plateaux, breakdowns and breakthroughs. These are all common stopovers, temporary spaces where acceptance, patience, tolerance and taking deep, relaxed breaths can make a world of difference to how you feel.

Go for a leisurely walk. Adopt the patient pace of nature. Have your senses put in order. Be soothed and healed.

How to bless someone. Gather yourself together. Be calm. Start off the blessing by saying: May you . . . Choose your words carefully. Make each word count. Mean what you say.

Let go. Let old things fall away, don't cling to form and temporary identity.. "It’s helpful to realise that you are essentially an invisible entity . . . there is that which is beyond the mind and the emotions." (Eckhart Tolle)