In a way, there's nothing wrong with playing the piano, but it's not a huge trauma if you don't.

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

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

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

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.