This document contains advice and mantras from the Dalai Lama for living a good life in 2008. It encourages taking risks for love and achievement, learning from mistakes, spending time alone each day, maintaining values while being open to change, and dealing only with current disagreements when arguing with loved ones. It also includes a mantra about forwarding the message to others within 96 hours for improvements in life.
A traveler took a trip through Germany visiting various locations. Details of specific places visited or experiences had were not included in the brief document. The document ended abruptly with an unrelated message.
A 92-year-old man is moving into a retirement home after his wife passed away. As he walks to his new room, he tells the staff that he already likes the room, having decided in advance to be happy no matter what. He says happiness is a choice based on perspective, not external factors. The man advises depositing happy memories into your "bank account" for later life.
The document encourages sharing with friends to raise awareness of suffering in the world and promote gratitude for what people have. It contains a photo from 1994 showing a starving child and asks readers to pray for those suffering and to never waste food or take blessings for granted.
The document summarizes a visit to the Lord's Clinic where the narrator receives a spiritual checkup. Jesus diagnoses the narrator as being ill with low tenderness, anxiety, loneliness blocking the arteries, and other ailments due to not listening to God and focusing on others' shortcomings. Jesus provides a free consultation and natural remedies of taking gratitude, peace, patience, brotherhood, humility and love daily. The narrator is encouraged not to give in to sadness or desperation over life's trials and promised that God will provide answers.