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

Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting sense of confidence, peace, and well-being. Among sentient beings, human beings appear to stand alone in their ability to recognize the necessity to forge a bond between reason, emotion, and their instinct to survive, and in doing so create a universe-not only for themselves and the human generations that follow, but also for all creatures who feel pain, fear and suffering-in which we are all able to coexist contentedly and peaceably.

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

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

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

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.

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.