Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.

Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.

It’s so easy to think that we’re the only ones who suffer, while other people are somehow immune to pain, as though they’d been born with some kind of special knowledge about being happy, that, through some cosmic accident, we never received. Thinking in this way, we make our own problems seem much bigger than they really are.

When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.

All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.