201. Today is the best day of your life. No matter what happens to you today or what you do today, today is going to be the best day of your life. How do you know that? Because you do not compare yesterday to today. Today stands alone. The past is the past and the future is not here, but today, is your day. It is here, it is now; it is all there is. And even if today is your last day, it will be your best day. Yes, today is perfectly your most excellent day. It is a wonderful, awesome and delightful day, and, it is the only day you have for sure, for no one can claim tomorrow until it is today. Today, right now, is the best day of your life.

202. Expect the best be at peace with the rest. What sense would it make to expect less than the best. It would be nonsense since the best can only happen if you expect the best to happen. If you decide to climb a mountain but don’t expect to make it, why go to the trouble? You expect to finish what you start and you expect the best at the finish, and you are not going to let contrary thoughts undermine and sabotage your plans and kill your desires. And you don’t hang around people who stomp on your expectations. Expect the best and be at peace with the rest.

203. There are as many realities as there are people. Every person lives in his own world. At any moment, I am just one thought away from experiencing a different reality. My life will be the same tomorrow if I think the same thoughts as today. How can I be happy if my thoughts make me miserable? If I want to enjoy the day for what it is, instead of what I think it is, I stop thinking. When I unchain myself from my thoughts, there’s just me experiencing life. If you live in a mental prison, your thoughts built the bars.

204. Some days you have to jump-start yourself by jumping up and down and twirling and yelling, “I’m alive, alert, awake enthusiastic!” If you want to feel enthusiastic, act enthusiastic. It’s really that simple..

205. How, but by light is dark discerned? Where is knowledge, understanding and wisdom without opposition in all things? How many heroes without villains? How many noble and selfless without the ignoble and selfish? What can be known without opposites? Can you know hot without cold; high without low; left without right; in without out? Without opposites there would be no knowledge, no value, no appreciation, but, ignorance would abound, so there would be no joy, peace or happiness. Ignorance never was happiness.

206. You are always true to yourself. You cannot but to thin own self be true. Who is this self you serve? Is it not the self that seeks joy, peace, happiness and pleasure and to be at peace with yourself? Avoid pain, seek pleasure; avoid sorrow, seek joy–to this all are true, thus all are true to themselves. You can adopt a code, convention, standard or set of values and swear it by oath, yet should you fail, you are but being true to yourself? No matter how hard you try, you cannot but to thine own self be true.