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.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.

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.

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

By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

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

If there is a remedy or a cure, a solution to a problem or difficulty, why worry?