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.
Yongey Mingyur RinpocheThe best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.
Yongey Mingyur RinpocheHappiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.
Yongey Mingyur RinpocheBeing human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche