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

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

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

We do all kinds of things to remain beautiful. Yet, we spend surprisingly little time taking care of what matters most - the way our mind functions.

Whatever you train, you change your brain.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

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.