What Are the Best Things in Life?

        I ran across this sign today and liked the uniqueness of it, and the fact that it is homemade.  It would also be interesting to hear the homeowners  reasons and explanations for displaying the statement in their front yard. Obviously there are few zoning laws in this area. Beside these musings, I started thinking about the message. So what are the best things in life? For each of us the answers could be infinite.
     This statement attributed to Art Buchwald, is a commentary on materialism. We live in a culture that to a large extent equates self-worth with how much and what one has. One must look through the collective delusion, the chasing of things in the vain hope of finding worth and completion of the sense of self in things, which can lead to a lack of consciousness of the real self.  No" thing" ever had to do with who a person is. Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in things. Perhaps this is where lies the beauty and miracles of life. For me the" not things" bring the greatest happiness and joy that is given daily if I stay aware and in tune to the ultimate Reality.