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.

If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.

Worries are pointless. If there's a solution, there's no need to worry. If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.