If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

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

When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

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.

We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases.