Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

Our joy, peace and happiness depend very much on our practice of recognizing and transforming habit energies. There are positive habit energies that we have to cultivate, and negative habit energies that we have to recognize, embrace and transform. The energy with which we do these things is mindfulness.

Happiness does not come from consumption of things.

When we are angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it.

Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.