Let things that enter your life wake you up. To do this: be open, be curious, accept everything that comes along and let it teach you what it will. You can try to do everything to make your world perfect, but the old stuff always appears until you have learned your lesson.
A good social gathering with food requires participation, in the efforts of organization, work to be done and attendance. This is in turn gives back sustenance for body and soul, a sense of belonging that cannot be done by individuals alone.
A great person realizes and admits when he makes a mistake, then sets about correcting it. They consider a person who points out their faults as a most benevolent teacher. He who does not meddle in the affairs of others and is a light to all.
All things change, prosperity is followed by decline; this is an eternal natural law. Evil can be checked but not permanently abolished, it always returns. This idea might produce melancholy, but should not, it ought only to keep us from falling into illusion when good fortune comes to us.
Quote: For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. Luke 12:48