The way you experience [pain] can change so much depending on your attitude.

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.

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

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.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.