Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

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

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.

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.

Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.

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

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