Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area of operation. The results are those you find in any concentrative practice: deep calm, a physiological slowing of the metabolism and a sense of peace and wellbeing

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.