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

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

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

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

Any attempt to capture the direct experience of the nature of mind in words is impossible. The best that can be said is that it is immeasurably peaceful and, once stabilized through repeated experience, virtually unshakable. It's an experience of absolute well-being that radiates through all physical, emotional and mental states-even those that might ordinarily be labeled as unpleasant.

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.