Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

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

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

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

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.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.

When you see those in healthcare who don't get this burn-out, they are very motherly, fatherly, or loving and attentive with the patients. [These] wonderful caretakers, doctors, and nurses don't get as much burn-out as people who are more defensive of the feelings and suffering of others.