To make your life better:

1. Live Life Peacefully: The amount of conflict and violence in the world is appalling to say the least. In response to this, all decent people undoubtedly want wars and hatred to end, and the first step to this is to stop contributing to the state of human violence by living peacefully ourselves. I know there are deeper and wider meanings to conflict, in which "what should be" conflicts with "what is", but here I am suggesting a more simple thing which is just to live at peace with everything and everybody around us. That is the starting point. Peaceful living softens the heart and teaches us how to diffuse our reactive nature so that we can become masters of our emotions. hen the winds of conflict start to stir within, if you can remember your determination to live peacefully, it will lead you to becoming conscious and awake during such tumultuous times. !nce conscious, you will be able to retain your composure and act intelligently, instead of becoming a slave to the storm of feelings conflict evokes. This ability to witness the ways of the ego and emotions, puts you on the path to awakening.

2. Live Life Honestly: The road to enlightenment is a path of negation. This is a very crucial understanding in order to make the right progress. hat this essentially means, is when all that is false is taken away, what remains is your true, non"dual, already perfect nature. #ou are the substratum on which the game of life is being played out, and to encounter this timeless aspect of yourself, you need to shed all the masks you have put on. $or that your have to learn how to live life honestly. This is not as easy as it may sound initially. To live honestly you will have to shatter many images of yourself that you hold dear and face many aspects of who you are, which will downright appall and even disgust you. %ut this cleansing, this dying of our many false selves is a necessary part of the process. &eal honestly leads to real simplicity and innocence, which is essential for walking this path path to your 'atural (elf. To work on yourself, you have to first see things as they are, even if they are a mess. This is the first step and as your understanding deepens, you will come to reali)e that the way to break through is to totally accept the actuality of "what is", without any attempt to change or escape it. * prere+uisite for such action is brutal honesty. The mind is a master at deception and the practice of honesty in all forms is the beginning of clarity.

3. Live Life with Order: !ne great advantage that monks and yogis have when they live in an ashram or monastery, is that their lives have great order. This structured living then helps them establish internal order and helps them establish a strong spiritual practice. (o try to adopt some of these aspects into your life as well and therefore benefit from such structure as the monks and yogis do. The more such order emerges from your passion and your practice the more natural and effective it will be. *llow your practice to thus shape your life and structure your days so that you can move forward systematically and gracefully. ,enerally, you will find setting up a consistent time for your practice, waking up early, getting proper e-ercise, eating healthy, spending time in nature and other such wholesome activities becoming a natural part of your life as you progress. (mall things you do will matter also. .leanliness, simplicity, balance, promptness, diligence, thoughtfulness will all start to emerge as you put your life in order. *lso, order does not mean an absence of spontaneity. %eing simple and making time for leisure will promote spontaneity, as will living in the moment, with honesty. (o start to organi)e yourself and your time and get your life in order. #ou will be pleasantly surprised by how much this will help you in your personal as well as spiritual growth. (o how to live life in order to begin the great adventure to enlightenment/ 0ive peacefully, honestly and with great order, and surely you will find yourself on the path to awakening and (elf"&eali)ation.

Taken from excerpts from: Anmol Mehta-Thank you Love without expecting to be loved !ive without expecting return Live life for others and not merely for self-gratification "appiness is found in making others happy and having the ability to love unconditionally # Alec $arton