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

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.

The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.

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

If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

TO CUT THROUGH problems, we need problems.

The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience.