We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see a correlation between their particular genius in playing chess and music and mathematics, etc. ... with human qualities. Some were really good, wonderful people, and some were difficult characters, but there was no clear correlation. But when I met some spiritual masters, [I thought that] there had to be a correlation, and it turned out to be true.

Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain.

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

Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.

We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential.

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