Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.

Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.

All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy.

Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.

When a jealous person sees signs of other people's success and good fortune, his heart is pierced with envy. But someone who has learned to rejoice in the good fortune of others experiences only happiness. Seeing another person's beautiful house or attractive partner immediately makes him happy - the fact that they are not his own is irrelevant.

The cause of happiness and the solution to our problems do not lie in knowledge of material things. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind.