Love “Don't change: Desire to change is the enemy of love. Don't change yourselves: Love yourselves as you are. Don't change others: Love all others as they are. Don't change the world: It is in God's hands and he knows. And if you do that change will occur, Marvellously in its own way and in its own time, Yield to the current of life unencumbered

Overwhelm always comes in when you’re focused on the difference between where you want to be – a future goal – and where you are, right now.

See www.ashleighbrilliant.com for more of his great work [2] Katie Piper was attacked by an ex-boyfriend and an accomplice. She now heads a charity for people with burns and scars, as well as being a TV presenter/personality.

Your birthright is to know that it isn’t life that brings you happiness, it is you that brings happiness to life.

2. Don’t be afraid of emotion

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs – ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” - Harold Thurman, American civil rights leader and theologian

Maharishi Sadashiva Isham, the teacher of my Bright Path Ishaya teacher once said: “The simple guiding principle here is this: if we are sowing division, preaching destruction, seeking or finding evil in the world (even if we are looking for it with the intention of removing it!), then we are part of the problem, not the cure.”

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would have not a single bit of talent left and could say, 'I used everything you gave me’.” - Erma Bombeck, American author and newspaper columnist

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.” - Wang Fou, Chinese philosopher