Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That's very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.

[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see a correlation between their particular genius in playing chess and music and mathematics, etc. ... with human qualities. Some were really good, wonderful people, and some were difficult characters, but there was no clear correlation. But when I met some spiritual masters, [I thought that] there had to be a correlation, and it turned out to be true.

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

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

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

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