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

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.

When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.

It's not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

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.

Changing your attitude has a curative effect... Maybe you can go directly to a change of mind, a change of attitude.