Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.

Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.

Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.

It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.