When you engage in compassion, and you hear a distressing sound, like someone calling for help, there is an activation in an area of the brain called the insular, which has to do with empathy and altruism, that is vastly more activated than in non-meditators.

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success

There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.

When faced with adverse circumstances, if you can do something, do it and there is not need to worry. If you can't do anything, then there is no point to worry. So in either case, worrying is an added suffering. But this does not mean of course that we should not be unhappy about injustice, abuse and other kinds of behavior that brings suffering upon others.