At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.

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.

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

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.

Just be free, and at least you will go through adversity with a stronger mind, and therefore, you'll be less affected, and pain will affect you less.

Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.