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

Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.

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

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.

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

Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

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