If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.

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

The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.

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

Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind.