Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.
Love is the bridge that joins all the worlds together.
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere.
There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.
If you try to pull too much power through too soon, you will injure yourself.
The Buddhist message is a message not of the negation of life, but one of affirmation.