Compassion as guide. 

Time flows; no one can stop time. Use time properly, meaningfully, sensibly. Don't use time for destructive purposes. The rest of our lives becomes more meaningful if we utilise time wisely. 

The way you spend time should make you feel genuine satisfaction. If you use time cheating and bullying, you might get some sort of satisfaction but that would be very short-lived - for, in the long run, even a non-believer gets some sort of doubt; you feel some sort of uneasiness. That's why, only do those things that give you deep satisfaction. That's living a meaningful life. Just money will not give you real satisfaction. Only greed increases, for you always want more.

 Cultivate a more compassionate attitude and that will give you genuine satisfaction. So, how to make your life more meaningful? First, we should think...all sentient beings experience pleasure and pain (although some are debating about whether plants have feelings). All sentient beings wish to be happy. Because of the power of intelligence, human beings have much better ability to avoid suffering. In the meantime, somehow, that very intelligence is also the source of problems.

There's too much stress. The more educated you are, the more expectations you have (and others have of you), your hopes and fears, too, are intensified because of memory and intelligence. Animals have less expectation; they deal with immediate threats.

We should use our intelligence in such a way that it is a source of happiness, not as aggravator of anxiety and stress. Real happiness comes from within and not from money and knowledge.