The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
Whatever you train, you change your brain.
Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.
To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.