The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is a process of change.
-William James
With a genuine keenness or readiness to serve others, one can attain happiness in any group or community, and the eagerness to serve others will endow you with the power and skill necessary for the required service. Nowadays, we tend to regard it as derogatory to serve, but there is great worth in service.
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.