Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time.

An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

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