The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

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

Too much involvement with one's feeling [is destructive]. If they have too much self-centered feelings, they get in trouble.

No change occurs if we just let our habitual tendencies and automatic patterns of thought perpetuate and even reinforce themselves, thought after thought, day after day, year after year. But those tendencies and patterns can be challenged.

If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.

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