The document provides short pieces of advice from the Dalai Lama for living a meaningful life in 2009. Some of the key advice includes: taking risks but learning from failures, respecting yourself and others while taking responsibility for your actions, that not getting what you want can be fortunate, and to share knowledge to achieve a kind of immortality. The overall message encourages living honorably, loving family as a foundation, resolving disagreements constructively, and experiencing life with an open and gentle spirit.