There are three very crucial principles that will change the quality of our life. All of us want to live a quality life. We can never have a perfect life. But we definitely can have a happy life. But we can choose to make our life happier than what it is now.

The first principle is to learn how to have a balance in life.

We drive the car of the life which has four wheels. The first wheel is our personal life, our health, our money, the things that we love to do. The things that we ‘want’ to do, and not the things that we ‘have’ to do.

The second wheel of the car is the family life.

The third wheel of the car is the professional life.

The fourth one is the social life. Our friends, people around us, relatives. 

Even with one tire out of balance, we can not drive properly. If our health is out of order, we become irritable. Irritability is a symptom of an ‘out of balance’ life. Stability in our responses is a symptom of a life in balance. We are irritable, we snap, we react at the drop of a hat, for trivia, just because we are out of balance. People who have a balanced life know how to handle pressure. We can’t stop chaos in our life. Life is not going to be ideal. One or the other tire or even more than one tire is going to need more attention. But one thing that needs to be given constant priority is our spiritual practices. We can say that spiritual practice is the steering wheel of this car. To remain peaceful, to remain stable in the middle of chaos, we need to be deeply connected with the source of peace and stability, our inner self. To remain stable in the turbulence of the world, we need to have a rock strong solid foundation of deep religious practices.

People will forget what you said, people will even forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. The words are forgotten, the actions are forgotten, but the experience remains.

-From the thoughts of Swami Rama