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

Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are perceived as ugly and painful. This mechanism gives rise to those states of mind that we are training ourselves to avoid-- things like greed, lust, hatred, aversion, and jealousy.

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

View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

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.