A big part of pain is the subjective reaction of trying to revolt against pain. If it's there, it's better to deal with it. Most of it is "I cannot stand it," and that component is enhancing pain so much.

Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.

You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.