If I could advise one thing that we should be doing;

If I should present that thing as the only thing important to do;

It would be that we learn – we train ourselves – to increase gratitude.

Do this! Do it every moment of every day! Don’t falter! Give thanks!

In fact, for serenity’s sake, I would say that increasing gratitude is the only thing we can control.  Accept everything all else we must, and we must make the changes necessary to accept all else and to practice to control this one thing diligently.

I’ll put it this way:  we must build gratitude upwards to meet the gifts, the blessings, the grace – call it what you will – coming downwards to us.

That is it.  That is my unkept secret of life.  Disbelieve me at your peril.  [You know you love to]. Try and occupy yourself with anything else, try to control any else as you will, to no avail.  ‘Let Hercules himself try as he may, the cat must meow, the dog must have his day.’

P.S. This advice is more than well worth forgetting your ‘fundamentals’ about.  I can say that for sooth!