We're all buddhas. We just don't recognize it.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

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

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.

Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.

So overall, though my life is far from perfect, I'm contented with it. And in a peculiar way, I'm grateful for the troubling emotions I experienced. The obstacles we face in life can provide powerful incentives for change.