Every outer purpose is doomed to “fail” sooner or later, simply because it is subject to the law of impermanence of all things. - Eckhart Tolle

If there is no joy, ease, or lightness in what you are doing, it does not necessarily mean that you need to change what you are doing. It may be sufficient to change the how. “How” is always more important than “what.” See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you and allowing that goodness to emerge. If peace is really what you want, then choose peace. The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.(Ch 9)