Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.

Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation; you could call that emotional balance.