Compassion is the spontaneous wisdom of the heart. It's always with us. It always has been, and always will be. When it arises in us, we've simply learned to see how strong and safe we really are.

When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.

Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

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.

Any daily activity can be used as an opportunity for meditation.

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.

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