Most of what he said focessed on "what we believe and how we react to what is going on around us--physically, mentally and spiritually" determines how holistically healthy we will be.
How we react physically would be determined by our mental health, or how we would perceive reality, since the body is an extension of the mind.
How we react spiritually would be determined in how we perceive spirit and what relationship that has with our mental and physical reality. How we decide what is God and what isn't, or what we decide is Godly and ungodlike, and any stress we pass onto our relationship with God (if we have one).
If our primary relationship is with spirit and everything is seen as a reflection of spirit we live a spiritual life.
IF our primary relationship is with the relative and THAT is divided by the determinations of what is good and what is not, then our own mental attitude and relationship with life will be divided between our attachments and aversions to what we decide is good and what is bad.
Those who divide spirit from reality live a spiritual life of fantasy and mind, and all primary focus is on the divisions of relative values. The NOW is seen as a measure of mental values and all reactions are based on the measure of those values.
Happiness then is dependent on what one accepts and what distance is maintained from what one rejects as worthless or whatever does not fit in ones relative system of the personal reality.
That system changes with each personality and belief.
The universality of relative values them becomes a matter of democratic process rather than universal law. One does not find spirit to be universal but rather man made and defined by personal value systems. Same as the imagined God of religion.
Conflict then arises when one belief system or religion defends their spiritual values and their God when it clashes with another's spiritual values or God.
True liberation and peace of mind then comes not from the personally imagined God, but awareness and experience of God underlying the imagination and as it is
before it appears in the many forms of individual realities of the ego, and in the many beliefs of those who argue for their definitions of the one true God.
Holistically speaking one is only as free as the walls they put around themselves in the experience of Self and Reality.
The Now has no boundaries or defining principles since it is the awareness immersed in the absolute, rather than one of past memories and beliefs of the personal nature that can be challenged by the opposing thought.
IF you never leave your house, there is little to oppose your rule over personal boundaries, and the walls you have confined yourself within. However your awareness is limited to experiencing only what is within the walls of your house of belief.
Holistically speaking: Relative happiness within a coffin of your own design is not so very expansive.
